Create Dictionary For Mobile Using J2ME

Question

Hi all,

I want to create the dictionary for mobile. But I have any idea about it. Could anybody guide to learn about these?

Thanks, Sopolin

Answer 1

You need to elaborate a bit. What kind of a dictionary?

If what you want a list of word pairs, for example to translate between two languages such as English and German, and it is a fairly short list, you could use an in-memory hash table. There is a class Hashtable for this in CLDC. If you need a larger dictionary, you might want to store it on a memory card, and then it gets a bit more complicated to search it. There are also relational databases (such as Mimer SQL Mobile) that can be run under J2ME, and you might look at that option for storage and search.

EDIT:

The original poster added a question as a comment to this answer, about putting a list in a form. This page gives some code examples that might serve as an introduction, although the explanations are in Swedish.

Answer 2

DictionaryForMIDs is a project which does specifically this, and its open source so you can do necessary changes. I think they already have a java mobile application with a simple textbox. It uses a stripdown version of Wordnet 2.0 dictionary, Wordnet is an excellent lexical database of English.

Although, DictionaryForMIDs does the job, it has some bugs which are fairly noticeable. See if you can make something out of it.