J2ME in a Nutshell 
By Kim Topley


The unconfirmed error reports are from readers.  They have not yet been 
approved or disproved by the author or editor and represent solely the
opinion of the reader.

Here's a key to the markup:
        [page-number]: serious technical mistake
        {page-number}: minor technical mistake
        <page-number>: important language/formatting problem
        (page-number): language change or minor formatting problem
        ?page-number?: reader question or request for clarification

This page was updated May 16, 2003.


UNCONFIRMED  errors and comments from readers: 


{17}  The paragraph after the two bullet points;
The URL listed as "http://java.sun/com/j2se/" should be "http://java.sun.com/j2se".
(the third slash should be a dot '.').


{154}  First paragraph;
It says: "For both paramaters, a positive value indicates a clockwise turn; a
negative value indicates a counterclockwise turn."

This is backwards.  Positive is counterclockwise; negative is clockwise.  The
examples later on the page get it right.


{165}  Figure 5-15;
The arrows indicating the leading metric of the font indicate it goes from the
baseline to the bottom of the font area.  The leading is from the bottom of the
descender to the bottom area.


[197,198,207]  Beginning with code example at bottom of page;
The code on p. 197 calls Connector.open() to create an HttpConnection, then
IMMEDIATELY calls getResponseCode() -- the text in the next paragraph (top of p. 198)
explains that it isn't necessary to first send a GET request because the
"HttpConnection does it for you".

The code on p. 207 calls Connector.open() to create an HttpConnection, then
IMMEDIATELY calls setRequestMethod() to make the request into a POST before it is
sent.  BUT HOW WAS THE "AUTOMATIC" SENDING OF A "GET" REQUEST BY THE HttpConnection
SUPPRESSED?

Is it the call to getResponseCode() that actually kicks off the transfer to the
server?


(198)  3rd paragraph;
"In this case, the setLength() method returns -1..."

Should be getLength()


(200)  2nd paragraph, last sentence;
"containg"


(230)  Last paragraph, 1st sentence;
"represent" should be "representing"?


(233)  1st paragraph, last sentence;
"In order [to] build..."


(304)  1st sentence;
"...refer to Chapter 25."

There are 18 chapters in the book.


{314}  List of Packages Not Included in JSME;
I have found three Packages that have not been included they are javax.crypto and
javax.crypto.interface and jaxax.crypto,spec


(385 -95)  side headding;
The side headding is java.microedition.io when it should say javax.microedition.io