[Logicmail-devel] J2ME vs BB-specific APIs

[WJCarpenter <bil...@ca...>]

[[First of all, forgive me!  I had LogicMail 1.0.4 installed for quite a 
while and figured it was just another half-baked but promising IMAP 
client that would soon be abandoned like so many others.  Just today I 
installed the lasted 1.9 build, and woo-hoo!  This baby is starting to 
rock!  It's now pretty close to what I have been looking for ever since 
I got my BlackBerry.  Kudos.]]

I haven't had the chance to browse through the LogicMail sources, but I 
am curious about the separation/modularity/abstraction of the BB 
proprietary APIs versus generic J2ME APIs.  My assumption is that 
BB-specific APIs are used to save work and/or to make a better user 
experience.  Are there fundamental features that would be extremely 
difficult or impossible to implement without the BB-specific APIs?

The real question I am asking is .... would it be feasible to have 
non-BB LogicMail versions where some things have alternative or missing 
or dumbed down implementations without BB-specific APIs?  The mobile 
world in general needs a good IMAP client so much, and LogicMail is 
starting to look so good, that it seems a shame to limit it to BB only.  
Even though I use a BB Bold, I might be able to put some effort into a 
"pure J2ME" LogicMail if it looks tractable in the first place.