Saturday, December 1, 2007

How to install Java application OTA (Over The Air)?

The quickest way to install a Java application is by downloading it through the Internet. This is called Over The Air (OTA) installation. In order to do this, you must use your phone WAP browser. You should then direct your browser to an Internet site that provide mobile Java applications, and then click the specified link to directly download the application you need to install. The browser downloads the file and load JAD Java applications management software (AMS) for installation process. The AMS will notify you to confirm a series of choices, after that it will automatically download the JAR file, and does the rest of the installation process. Please note that you cannot use any of the non-native Nokia Web browsers because they do not know how to invoke the AMS. To ensure OTA run properly, the web server that offers the download must map the .jad file suffix to the text/vnd.sun.j2me.app-descriptor Multipurpose Internet Mail Extensions (MIME) type and the .jar file suffix to the application/java-archive MIME type

You may buy or try Java applications from many websites. Your WAP browser's probably already bookmarked with a selection of these websites.

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