This has been a very suprising 1st quarter — Sun acquires MySQL, now Nokia goes for TrollTech, wonder what will be next. Anyway, I’ve been searching the Internet for more resources on how to use a mobile phone’s bluetooth. Here are some links to information and tutorials about using a mobile phone’s bluetooth on your J2ME code.

The Java Specification Request (JSR) no. 82 is the defining standard for Java APIs for Bluetooth. You can read about it at the Java Community Process web site.

A 3-part article on Sun’s Developer Network about creating multiplayer games. Tells some of the basic things to consider in creating a multiplayer game and provides some source code examples.

• Mobile Multiplayer Gaming, Part 1: Real-Time Constraints
• Mobile Multiplayer Gaming, Part 2: Applied Theory
• Mobile Multiplayer Gaming, Part 3: Multiplayer Games with Bluetooth

A 2-part article over at Sys-con’s Java Developer’s Journal. The article discusses the about the Bluetooth protocol and the provides some example code on how to use the JSR-82 API.

• Wireless J2ME Applications with Java and Bluetooth, Part 1
• Wireless J2ME Applications with Java and Bluetooth, Part 2

An article at the IBM DeveloperWorks website shows how to allow embedded devices to share information and events across a Bluetooth PAN.

• Add a Bluetooth text protocol to J2ME apps

Basic introduction to bluetooth and J2ME found at Wireless Pro News. Provides links to other resources.

• Introduction To Bluetooth And J2ME

Books you can buy about J2ME and bluetooth:

• Bluetooth For Java by Bruce Hopkins and Ranjith Antony
• J2ME Games With MIDP2 by Carol Hamer
• J2ME: The Complete Reference by James Edward Keogh
• Enterprise J2ME: Developing Mobile Java Applications by Michael Juntao Yuan
• Wireless Game Development in Java with MIDP 2.0 (Wordware Game Developer’s Library) by Ralph Barbagallo