[mandeepdhill]

I have made a few j2me applications and would like to distribute them via the internet. My location is chandigarh in india. I am planning to make a site and distribute them thru that. I would be grateful if someone could clarify the following doubts:-
a. Where can I get code to check the mobile number of phone accessing my www or wap site?
b. I have obfuscated my midlets. Does this and packaging in a forward lock with the NMIT enough to prevent copying. What are the pros and cons of encoding with seperate delivery.
c. Any other readymade solutions for marketing the products??

[nuker85]

Hello

a) it s not possible to get phone number of mobile because it s not saved in any place in mobile.

c) Maybe here: http://www.handango.com/

Thats all i can help

Good Luck

Nuker

[prakash.raman]

Well buddy in symbian u can retrive phone number but not in java app but if u r puting app on network then from wap header u can retrive the phone number of the user. And search i believe there are some site which allows u to uload ur jar...

[petrib]

Well buddy, in Symbian retrieving the phone number is not very easy, either. You can only get it in the rare cases where the network operator has stored it on the SIM card (most operators/services providers do not put the number, MSISDN, on the SIM, because there're very few good reasons why they should; it is not needed/used by the phone to make or receive calls or send/receive messages).

Otherwise, the phone number is not stored anywhere on the phone.

And as far WAP headers go, some (not all, or just few) add the MSISDN to HTTP headers when traffic goes through the operator's WAP gateway. The phone doesn't get it directly in those cases, but a web/WAP server can. So, you'd have to be using a WAP access point and SIM card from a network operator that does it, and then connect to a server that gets the number and ask it to give it to the phone-based app. It'll work in very rare cases.

The best way to get the user's phone number is to ask the user to type it in (and - as someone wiser than me proposed - if you want to validate the number's correctnes, use the number to send a special SMS to the number and see if the SMS comes [back]).

[hartti]

b) on Nokia phones the JAR files cannot be transferred or other phones thanks to closed content list (CCL) so you do not need to use the OMA forward lock (unless of course if you are targeting also other phones).

Hartti

[zmrcic]

have made a few j2me applications and would like to distribute them via the internet. My location is in Serbia, Europe. I am planning to make a site and distribute them thru that. I would be grateful if someone could clarify the following doubts:-
a. how can I prevent people to bluetooth or any other way copy my app to other phones....