phoneME Archive

Background

This repository contains the archived source code of the old Sun phoneME project, converted to git.

Additional links:

• Java ME on Wikipedia
• Archive of the java.net phoneME project
• Archive of the java.net phoneME wiki
• Archive of phoneme.dev.java.net

Conversion Notes

The original source was published as Subversion at https://svn.java.net/svn/phoneme~svn. This server is long defunct, but the SVN sources were saved to Archive.org as a SVN dump at https://archive.org/details/phoneme-svn.dump. I have taken this dump and massaged it into a sort-of usable git repo. This was trickier than it sounds, due to the odd layout of the Subversion repo. For details on the repo layout, see PhoneMERepositoryStructure.

In short, I have imported each individual component (with tags and branches) as separate roots in the git repo. I have also imported the legal, builds and releases sub-trees the same way. In general, the names of tags and branches were unique enough to not collide, but there were a few exceptions. For these, an arbitrary source tag/branch was chosen and the other(s) are lost. See missing references below for a list of such tags and branches that is not 100% correctly mapped from SVN.

Finally, to get a default view of the repo which makes the most sense, I have created a master branch into which I have merged all the individual trunks from the components (and legal, and the top level trunk with www). In some sense, this is the most recent view of the original SVN repository.

I chose to put the individual components directly in the root directory (like cdc), and not in a components directory (like components/cdc). While the latter had better matched the original layout, the method I choose makes it easy to checkout a tag from builds or releases and get a similar layout.

Conversion Methodology

Initially, I created a separate git repository for each component, using git svn for trunk, tags and branches, like this:

git svn clone file://.../phoneME-svn --no-metadata -bcomponents/$1/branches -tcomponents/$1/tags -Tcomponents/$1/trunk $1

Similarly, I created repositories for build and release, but for these, I interpreted the subdirectories as git tags:

git svn clone file:///.../phoneME-svn --no-metadata -t$1 $1

Finally, I created legal, and the main trunk (containing www) using just the trunk import argument:

git svn clone file:///.../phoneME-svn --no-metadata -T$1 $1

For some reason I could not fully understand, git svn did not create proper tags and branches, but instead only populated .git/info/refs. I could not figure out a proper git way of converting these to real branches and tags, so I ran this script for each mini-repo:

addtag () {
  git show-ref | grep refs/remotes/origin/tags/$1 | cut -d " " -f1 > .git/refs/tags/$1
}

addbranch () {
  git show-ref | grep refs/remotes/origin/$1 | cut -d " " -f1 > .git/refs/heads/$1
}

git show-ref | grep refs/remotes/origin/ | grep -v refs/remotes/origin/tags/ | cut -d " " -f 2 | cut -d "/" -f 4- > BRANCHNAMES
git show-ref | grep refs/remotes/origin/tags/ | cut -d " " -f 2 | cut -d "/" -f 5-  > TAGNAMES

while read p; do
  addtag $p
done < TAGNAMES

while read p; do
  addbranch $p
done < BRANCHNAMES

After this, I re-joined all these separate git repos into one. I did this by starting out with the trunk repo, and then importing commits, tags and branches from each individual mini-repo. I also merged the master (trunk) of each individual mini-repo into the master of the consolidated repository, placing it in a suitable location using git read-tree. In effect, this is what I did per mini-repo:

git remote add $1 /.../$1
git fetch $1
git fetch $1 --tags
git merge -s ours --no-commit $1/master --allow-unrelated-histories
git read-tree --prefix=$1/ -u $1/master
git commit -m "Merge in $1/"

Missing References

Duplicated tags, where only one were kept

Java_ME_SDK_Mac_CLDC-Darwin-158
midp-cdc-win32-gci-1
midp-mr2-promo-b05
phoneme_advanced-mr1-rel-b06
phoneme_feature-mr1-rc-b04
sdk-tt-cf1
sdk-tt-pr1

Duplicated branches, where only one were kept

abstractions-cr-6678413
cdc-112_02
cdc-cr-6520657
cdc-proto
cldc-cr-6779573-time
code-subm-davyp-20080812
javacall-cr-6769974
javacall-mr2-cr-6517470
jc_perm_fix
jmesdk-agui-oi
jsr120-cr-6551021
jsr211-cr-6662559
leto_r1
leto_r1_mr1
leto_r1_mr1_rotation3
leto_r1_mr1-rt_l10n
midp-cdc-win32-gci
midp-cr-6714912-asyn_network_commit_fix
midp-mr2-cr-6508174-TCK-OpenRecordStore1
midp-mr2-cr-6524911
midp-mr2-ixc-fix
pmea-mr2-ea1
protocol-permissions
push-refactoring
sdk-tt-cf1
ui_service

Build Instructions

For compiling the components on a Linux AMD64 system, you need a GCC able to emit i686 code as well as a JDK capable of emitting Java 1.4 bytecode such as JDK6.

Additionally you need the equivalents of the following dependencies for your distribution (the packages here are listed for Fedora 35):

• glibc-static.i686
• libstdc++-static.i686
• binutils.i686
• musl-devel.i686
• glibc-devel.i686
• gcc-c++.i686

To build the CDC VM follow these steps:

1. Change to cdc/build/linux-x86-suse.
2. Ensure the correct javac is on the $PATH, see comment above.
3. Run make.

You will find the cvm VM executable in the bin/ subfolder.

To build the CLDC VM follow these steps:

1. Change to cldc/build/linux_i386
2. Set the JVMWorkSpace environment variable to the absolute path of the cldc directory.
3. Set the JDK_DIR environment variable to your JDK distribution (see comment above).
4. Run make ENABLE_COMPILATION_WARNINGS=true ROMIZING=false ENABLE_JNI=false.

You will find the cldc_vm executable in the target/bin subfolder. Please note that the system classpath needs to be passed into the VM together with your application classpath. You can find it in cldc/build/classes. Currently it is required to disable romizing and JNI due to build issues with these options enabled. The ENABLE_COMPILATION_WARNINGS option disables the use of -Werror which causes the build to fail with modern compilers.

Also see https://phonej2me.github.io/content/mr2/cldc_feature.html.