[Jossnaz]

Hello


I am creating a Midlet for my university and I have to find out which mobilephone producers don't allow normal hobby-developers to use their fileconnection api.

Motorola doesn't support it (well, you gotta work in a developercompany working for motorola to use it -> fileconnection is not supported for normal people), I read of siemens not supporting it too. Is this still up to date?

Sonyericsson and Nokia support it as I saw.


Would be great to know
thanks

Jossi

[balagopalks]

Originally Posted by Jossnaz

I read of siemens not supporting it too. Is this still up to date?

Different Siemens(now BenQ-Siemens) devices allow accessing the file system.
In Siemens devices, the first class related to file system access was com.siemens.mp.io.File. It appeared on the 55 generation(X55) models and, as you can see in the package name, it is proprietary/Siemens specific. On such generation phones, this class is the only way to handle file operations.
After that, the com.siemens.mp.io.file.FileConnection came up in X65 phones. If you compare this class with the standard JSR 75 FileConnection interface(javax.microedition.io.file.FileConnection), you are going to realize that they have the same methods and therefore the same functionalities. The reason for creating this class is that it was implemented on some 65 generation phones before the JSR 75 was completed. So, on that time, there wasn't a standard way to access the file system yet.
And finally, different models from the 75 generation were released after the completion of the JSR 75. So, these models support file system access in the standard way, I mean they support the JSR 75 File Connection optional package.

Different Nokia devices do support FileConnection (JSR 75). To see the API support in different Nokia devices please go through this link http://www.forum.nokia.com/devices/matrix_all_1.html

Regards
Gopal