Java developers

I come from a background of high school Pascal and Commodore 64 Basic. A little C under FreeBSD, but I didn't get far beyond "hello world".

I've been learning Java at college for about four months, and since the curriculum bores the living fsck out of me, learning j2me/MIDP stuff (including the Nokia UI) on the side.

For the past four or so days i've been working on a nifty little galaga/space invaders clone type thing, and I figure now is about the time for me to get some feedback on it.

Anyone who wants to playtest it can download a .zip of the .jar and .jad files HERE. For Nokia phones only, sorry.

You will need a Series 40 phone (it crashes horribly under the S60 emulator, but you're welcome to try it; just don't say I didn't warn you.) with 4096 colours and 128x96 screen minimum. 128x128 is better.

Known to work on:

6610 (hardware)
3300 (emulated)
5100 (emulated)
7210 (emulated)
6230 (emulated)

Note that I have no idea if it's actually playable, speed wise, on the emulated phones. I just know it runs. There's no timing/speedlocking code in there, mainly because I don't know how to do it yet.

I probably won't post the source code. It's pretty crap. Maybe if you ask really nicely and promise not to berate me too much.

Thanks heaps. Hope you enjoy.

edit: Accidentally uploaded the .zip as ascii as opposed to binary. Stupid windows command-line ftp client. should work now.

I've been looking into WebStart a little more after my last post, as it could quite possibly solve a lot of our problems.

I wanted to make sure I'm reading things correctly though: As the client currently stands, it needs to get information from the web page (via applet params) when it starts up (things like who the user is, and what server it should be connecting to). Looking at the JNLP spec, it looks like I can set parameters in the JNLP file, but that means I have to dynamically create said file for each user (which I can just set up a web service to do, if need be).

I notice there is a Servlet that Sun provides that looks like it might also do the work of generating bits of the JNLP file, but all of our clients are running Microsoft boxes with IIS, and installing Tomcat (or whatever) isn't going to be an attractive option to them.

So would the web-service route be the way to go, or am I missing some other simpler way to get information from the launching page to the application?