Bluetooth is a technology for wireless communication. It is similar in functionality to the way laptops connect to the Internet from home/office, but is typically used for short burst communications instead of a continuous connection. Because of this difference, Bluetooth is more typically found supported in wireless phones and personal devices.

Bluetooth for Java is not an overview of Bluetooth. In the book, Bruce Hopkins and Ranjith Antony describe how to develop wireless Java applications using Bluetooth for a variety of platforms. This includes an API overview of the Java library, development of Bluetooth-based services, highlights of security concerns, and walkthroughs for development with some of the different tools available. Programs will not be just J2ME (micro devices) based, but will also be for J2SE (client/desktop).

Contents

Chapter 1: Introducing Bluetooth
Chapter 2: Bluetooth 1.1
Chapter 3: Before You Get Started
Chapter 4: Understanding the Java Bluetooth API
Chapter 5: Bluetooth with J2ME MIDP
Chapter 6: Creating a Bluetooth Print Server with JPS API
Chapter 7: Java and OBEX
Chapter 8: Using a Bluetooth Simulator
Chapter 9: Bluetooth Security
Chapter 10: Wireless Embedded Systems with the Micro BlueTarget
Chapter 11: Enterprise Bluetooth Applications with the Ericsson BlipNet
Chapter 12: Bluetooth and Jini
Appendix A: javax.bluetooth
Appendix B: javax.obex
Appendix C: Java Bluetooth Development on the PalmOS Platform
Appendix D: BlipNet 1.1 API