Unfortunately J2ME does not provide the best basis for writing a REST Web Service. As I already mentioned in previous posts the J2ME reference implementation does not support all HTTP methods. To overcome this restriction I wrote a J2ME Rest Client that uses HTTP method emulation like Rails does. Even though I heard that some [...]
I set up an mobile application that sends data via a REST based interface to a Grails-based server. Unfortunately J2ME does not support all HTTP methods. To overcome this weakness we have to emulate the methods PUT and DELETE. Like Rails just did this by adding a “_method=PUT” parameter to the query URL, we will [...]