Valid filenames for J2ME applications?

Some phone models may not be able to install applications that have
unexpected characters in the main filename.

It has come to my attention that my earlier practice of including the
software version as part of collection names can lead to such a problem.

Collection: French Darby Go Bible 2.2.2
results in filenames:
FrenchDarbyGoBible2.2.2.JAD
FrenchDarbyGoBible2.2.2.JAR

The dot separators in the version number cause some phones to have such a
problem.  This practice is therefore deprecated.

For my own part, I will rebuild my Go Bible collections with the version
number only as part of the download ZIP filename, if I include it at all.

Note that it is also not needed to include the name Go Bible in the
collection name, as this merely results in the application being listed in
the phone with Go Bible appearing twice within the application name - e.g.
for the above example, as

FrenchDarbyGoBible2.2.2GoBible

It would make sense to include a note about this in the Go Bible Creator
webpage, so that other users of the developer kit do not fall into the same
difficulty.

Original issue reported on code.google.com by DFH...@gmail.com on 11 Apr 2008 at 3:12

lukeme / gobible

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