An easy way to deploy JAR/JAD content on all phones with GPRS is to create a WML site and provide a link to the JAR file that you have. [As an aside, the whole J2ME scene is so fragmented that it sucks completely. Let’s hope Android sorts it out.]
Here’s how you go about setting up that in Lighttpd:
Add these mimetypes (to lighttpd.conf or mime-types.conf):
mimetype.assign += ( ".wml" => "text/vnd.wap.wml", ".wmlc" => "application/vnd.wap.wmlc", ".wmls" => "text/vnd.wap.vmlscript", ".vmlsc" => "application/vnd.wap.wmlscriptc", ".wbmp" => "image/vnd.wap.wbmp", ".jar" => "application/java-archive", ".jad" => "text/vnd.sun.j2me.app-descriptor" )
Add the index.wml file as a valid DirectoryIndex:
server.indexfiles += ("index.wml")
Make this .wml file and upload it somewhere (replace JARCLIENT with your .jar file, and JADCLIENT with your .jad file):
<?xml version="1.0"?> <!DOCTYPE wml PUBLIC "-//WAPFORUM//DTD WML 1.1//EN" "http://www.wapforum.org/DTD/wml_1.1.xml"> <wml> <card title="Download"> <p>Download the Jar file:</p> <p> <a href="JARCLIENT.jar">Download</a> </p> <p> <a href="JADCLIENT.jad">Download (JAD)</a> </p> </card> </wml>
Restart your server, and that should be it! If you’re using Apache, the steps are similar.
