This guide uses development scenarios to provide instruction on the creation of MIDP applications. It covers the basics of Java 2 Micro Edition and mobile information devices, the MIDIlet life cycle, user interfaces, database networking, XML, and security. A great deal of sample code is provided. B&w diagrams, photographs, and other illustrations are included. Ortiz is a software developer and engineer. GiGu<'e>re is a software developer.
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A hands-on programming guide for the most active wireless application environment— cell phones and pagers
In his previous book, Java 2 Micro Edition (0-471-39065-8), Eric Giguè re showed why Sun’ s J2ME is fast becoming the dominant language for all handheld devices. In this new book, the Ortiz-Giguè re team explains how to use the J2ME Mobile Information Device Profile (MIDP) to write Java applications for wireless devices like cell phones and two-way pagers as well as more powerful devices like the Palm VII. The authors begin with a basic tutorial on J2ME, then quickly move on to explain how to use MIDP to write full-featured applications for cell phones and pagers. Using real case studies and code, they walk developers through all the necessary topics, including GUIs, client/server and peer-to-peer communications, HTTP, XML, databases, WAP, security issues, MIDP and J2EE in the Enterprise and much more.