Codenameone SDK for Pubnub : End Of Life March 1st, 2017

[Jérémy MARQUER]

Hi,

Support of Codenameone SDK for Pubnub 4.0 is not scheduled by Pubnub Team and it will encounter end of life (3.x version) in early 2017 !

How should we do to maintain support in 2017 ?!

Here are my messages with pubnub team :

Jérémy MARQUER
Subject: support codenameone

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OCT 18, 2016  |  08:17AM PDT
Eric Lannan replied:

Jérémy,

A 4.x version for the Codenameone SDK is highly unlikely. According to our SDK team the Codenameone SDK lacks the proper networking libraries to build a quality SDK on.

Let me know if you have any further questions.

Regards
Eric

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OCT 18, 2016  |  07:36AM PDT
Original message
Jérémy wrote:

Hi,

I would like to know if Codenameone SDK will be available for Pubnub 4.0 ?

As it's mentioned here : https://www.pubnub.com/docs/codename-one-java/pubnub-java-sdk, we should migrate from 3.x to 4.x but codenameone sdk isn't available yet !

Thanks in advance,

Best regards,

Jérémy MARQUER
Développeur Logiciel
Software Developer

[Shai Almog]

Hi,
this is the first time I heard of this and they haven't contacted us. It is clearly BS as they are probably unaware of the ability to use websockets (which I'm assuming they migrated to) or the ability to use native interfaces to wrap their OS native SDK's.

I suggest contacting them as a customer (ideally paying customer) and notifying them that they are incorrect in this assessment.

[Jérémy MARQUER]

Hi,

I've contacted us as customer as you suggested above but they answered me that theirs SDK team has no plans on supporting codenameone for 4.X versions... :(

[Shai Almog]

Hi,
in that case there are two basic options:
1. Don't use pubnub
2. Do your own pubnub port

Currently I would go with #1. When we introduced pubnub we didn't yet have websockets, but with those the need for pubnub isn't as big. I'd like to rewrite my chat tutorial to be simpler and use websockets instead of pubnub similar to what Steve did: https://www.codenameone.com/blog/invite-friends-websockets-windows-phone-more.html

Porting pubnubs latest should be relatively easy, you can either port their Java or JavaScript code to Codename One or just wrap their native libraries both of which should be pretty trivial because the library isn't very complex to begin with.

[Jérémy MARQUER]

Ok, thanks for advice ! 

Actually, I think I will use websocket. My problem is : I already have a JAX-WS webservice on my server -> Can I use websocket (server side) in parallel of my webservice or do I have to deploy another web application ?

(FYI, the codenameone sdk will continue to work after March 1st in contrary of what I have mentionned above).

[Shai Almog]

Yes that shouldn't be a problem.

[xha...@googlemail.com]

YAY works again with the codenameone.ios prefix ! thanks for your help