Common Challenges to Porting Existing Code in C to BREW
With the rapid growth in market share for BREW, an increasing number of firms are looking to port their C-based algorithms to BREW. Read about four common challenges involved in doing so and learn how to tackle them.
by Ray Rischpater
July 10, 2006
riting—and maintaining—portable code is as much an art as it is the holy grail of many software companies. If your firm's success is based on a key algorithm for mobile computing (say, image or audio recognition), why not grow your market share by making your algorithm available for BREW? When you do, though, you'll face challenges. Often, the challenges are immediate and obvious, and how you solve them is part of how your company is successful, such as moving an application's user interface from one platform to another. At the heart of most technologies, however, are a few key algorithms nearly always written in mostly-portable C.
Moreover, once you've dealt with a few ports of such code to BREW, patterns emerge. Here are the four most common patterns I've observed, and how to deal with them.
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riting—and maintaining—portable code is as much an art as it is the holy grail of many software companies. If your firm's success is based on a key algorithm for mobile computing (say, image or audio recognition), why not grow your market share by making your algorithm available for BREW? When you do, though, you'll face challenges. Often, the challenges are immediate and obvious, and how you solve them is part of how your company is successful, such as moving an application's user interface from one platform to another. At the heart of most technologies, however, are a few key algorithms nearly always written in mostly-portable C.
