Overview

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When running a Compact JADE application, the following differences from a standard JADE application apply.

Thin client installation only.

The Personal Digital Assistant (PDA) device version of Compact JADE supports running JADE only as a presentation client. The presentation client can connect to standard JADE application servers, which can be ANSI or Unicode format.
Compact JADE GUI on a PDA device under Windows CE does not provide the Color dialog and Font dialog controls and form-related functionality.
When the File class open or openInput method is called on Windows Mobile devices and the value of the File class kind property is set to Kind_Unknown_Text and the file does not have a Byte Order Mark (BOM) at the start of the file, if the file is zero (0) or 1 byte in length, the file is treated as Kind_ANSI; otherwise it is Kind_Unicode. No attempt is made to detect the file type by reading the first part of the file.

Although you can read and write files of other kinds on Windows Mobile devices, you must explicitly specify the kind of file.