Debugging Tools for MIDP Java Devices

Olli Kallioinen; Tommi Mikkonen

Mobile Computing, Applications, and Services. Second International ICST Conference, MobiCASE 2010, Santa Clara, CA, USA, October 25-28, 2010, Revised Selected Papers

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Debugging Tools for MIDP Java Devices

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@INPROCEEDINGS{10.1007/978-3-642-29336-8_5,
    author={Olli Kallioinen and Tommi Mikkonen},
    title={Debugging Tools for MIDP Java Devices},
    proceedings={Mobile Computing, Applications, and Services. Second International ICST Conference, MobiCASE 2010, Santa Clara, CA, USA, October 25-28, 2010, Revised Selected Papers},
    proceedings_a={MOBICASE},
    year={2012},
    month={10},
    keywords={Mobile Java debugging},
    doi={10.1007/978-3-642-29336-8_5}
}

Olli Kallioinen
Tommi Mikkonen
Year: 2012
Debugging Tools for MIDP Java Devices
MOBICASE
Springer
DOI: 10.1007/978-3-642-29336-8_5

Olli Kallioinen¹^,*, Tommi Mikkonen²^,*

1: Sasken Finland
2: Tampere University of Technology

*Contact email: olli.kallioinen@sasken.com, tommi.mikkonen@tut.fi

Abstract

Mobile Java development using CLDC and MIDP can be very restricting, not only because of the more restricted libraries and older Java language, but also because some very basic development tools are not available in many situations. One of the biggest problems when debugging a midlet – a CLDC/MIDP application – is that when running a mobile Java application in a real device, stack traces are not available. Also other tools, like profiling tools, only work in certain emulators. In this paper, a set of improved tools for mobile Java development is introduced. Instrumentation, a well-known technique is used to work around the restrictions of the Java sandbox. Consequently no special support is required from the platform.

Keywords: Mobile Java debugging

Published: 2012-10-17

: http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-29336-8_5