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2.4.5

Shipping and Announced SVG Phones....................................... 17

2.5

J2ME..................................................................................................... 18

2.5.1

What is J2ME? ............................................................................ 18

2.5.2

The J2ME Architecture................................................................ 18

2.5.3

Mobile Information Device Profile (MIDP).................................... 19

2.5.4

MIDlets ........................................................................................ 21

2.6

XML Document Parsing........................................................................ 22

2.6.1

XML parser overview................................................................... 22

2.6.2

XML parser in MIDP .................................................................... 23

2.7

Earlier work on cartographic visualization for mobile applications ........ 24

3

The implementation.....................................................................27

3.1

Three testing server environments ....................................................... 27

3.1.1

Apache/PHP/MySQL SVG based map WMS in localhost ........... 27

3.1.2

Apache/PHP/MySQL SVG based map WMS from gis news....... 29

3.1.3

Raster image based map WMS from NASA................................ 31

3.2

Coordinates transformation................................................................... 32

3.2.1

Dot pitch ...................................................................................... 32

3.2.2

View Box ..................................................................................... 33

3.3

Design Steps ........................................................................................ 36

3.3.1

Java programming&debugging environment............................... 36

3.3.2

Simulating mobile device............................................................. 37

3.3.3

Programming with Eclipse/eclipseme plug in & Netbeans........... 38

3.3.4

System Structure analyzing and designing.................................. 38

4.4

J2ME Record Management Store (RMS) ............................................. 43

3.4.1

Managing the device database.................................................... 43

3.4.2

Data records operation................................................................ 44

3.5

KXML XML Parser ................................................................................ 46

3.6

Tinyline SVGT Toolkit ........................................................................... 47

3.7

Raster image viewer development........................................................ 49

4

Conclusion ...................................................................................51

4.1

Usability testing..................................................................................... 51

4.1.1

Test with SVG image WMS Server ............................................. 51

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