Java

Consumerization of IT Collides with MEAP: Android > Cloud

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In my ‘Consumerization of IT Collides with MEAP’ article last week, I described how to connect Android smartphones and tablets to Microsoft’s On-Premise infrastructure. In this week’s scenario, I’ll use the picture below to illustrate how Android utilizes many of Gartner’s Mobile Enterprise Application Platform Critical Capabilities to connect to Microsoft’s Cloud services in Azure: … Read more

Consumerization of IT Collides with MEAP: Android > On-Premises

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In my last ‘Consumerization of IT Collides with MEAP’ article, I described how to connect iPhones and iPads to Microsoft’s Cloud servers in Azure. In this week’s scenario, I’ll use the picture below to illustrate how Android devices can utilize many of Gartner’s Critical Capabilities to connect to Microsoft’s On-Premise infrastructure: As you can see … Read more

Writing Mobile Java Apps on the Compaq iPAQ

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Here’s a blast from the past when I wrote the cover story for Java Developer’s Journal a decade ago to coincide with the Java One conference. I used the Jeode JVM from Insignia Solutions to build apps using Sun Microsystem’s PersonalJava.  I can’t remember if I used JBuilder or Visual Cafe.  I managed to get Swing, threading, … Read more