Teamwork (and other things)

While Java rocks for teamwork because of its strict and streamlined heuristics, our resource files are less ideal. However we are changing that in the next update to Codename One!

The reason we chose to put everything into a binary resource file should be obvious: small size, portability. These are two critical features we had in mind when we designed the resource file format, we also wanted it to be really simple so we can e-mail it to our designer and so people could use it without an IDE (which back in 2006 was far more common). We initially thought about creating an XML file format which a special tool will convert into the res file format (and we had some prior work on the matter such as the XML ant tasks) but these proved to be cumbersome to maintain.

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