Question

How we can open browser through Java ME code in ubuntu os ?

I am using the below given code

String URL1="any url";
midlet.platformRequest(URL1);

The above line does not open the browser in the UBUNTU 10.10 but its working fine on windows os.

Please help me if any body else have faced the same problem.

Answer 1

if you use emulator (which one?), check if it is properly configured (emulators tend to have stuff like that in User Guide y’know)

• eg this article provides a recipe for WTK / ME SDK:

…The J2ME Wireless Toolkit supports the platformRequest() method, but
before using the method you must tell the toolkit what to do when it’s
invoked. You can associate only one platform service with
platformRequest(). For instance, if for testing purposes you associate
the method with your browser, the browser will be launched every time
you call platformRequest(). If you need more flexibility, you can
associate platformRequest() with a script that will use the URL
scheme to route the request to the right handler.

To associate a particular platform service with platformRequest(),
simply add a com.sun.midp.midlet.platformRequestCommand attribute to
the system.config file in the toolkit’s lib directory. For example, to
invoke the Mozilla browser whenever platformRequest() is called, add
the following to system.config:

# Associate the Mozilla browser with platformRequest() - Windows
com.sun.midp.midlet.platformRequestCommand: "C:\Program Files\mozilla.org\Mozilla\mozilla.exe" 

Given this setting, the call
platformRequest("http://developers.sun.com/mobility") will launch
Mozilla, and the browser will navigate to Sun’s developer mobility
portal…