Wireless J2ME Platform Programming

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Chapter 1: Introduction to the Java 2 Micro Edition (J2ME) Platform The Wireless Developer is proud to present Chapter 1 from the book, Wireless J2ME Platform Programming, by Vartan Piroumian, published by Sun Microsystems Press and Prentice Hall, and available at your favorite bookstore.

by Vartan Piroumian
Release 1.0
March 2002

About the Book

The Java 2 Micro Edition (J2ME) platform gives developers breakthrough tools for building advanced wireless applications. Now, one of the leading wireless application consultants at Sun has written a step-by-step guide to successful wireless developement using the J2ME SDK. Vartan Piroumian illuminates every key feature of the J2ME platform and every step of the development process: planning, architecture, design, coding, compilation, execution, debugging, and deployment. This book is a guide to:

• Using the Mobile Information Device Profile's (MIDP) high-level and low-level APIs
• Building effective wireless user interfaces with the J2ME platform
• Leveraging the J2ME platform's facilities for persistent storage
• Managing, provisioning, and internationalizing wireless applications
• Integrating complete wireless solutions: Internet portal interfaces, wireless application interfaces, and the wireless Internet environment
• Writing robust, highly usable, cross-platform wireless applications

This book teaches you how to develop software for the Sun Microsystems J2ME platform. It follows a tutorial-style approach; it's not a reference manual. The aim is to give you a solid foundation on concepts and techniques that will enable you to venture off and develop quality applications independently.

This book also defines and discusses wireless application provisioning systems and covers application deployment and provisioning from a conceptual perspective, without becoming mired in the details of specific vendor offerings of provisioning server software. The notion of application deployment is more visible-and more critical-with J2ME than with other platforms such as J2SE. In fact, understanding deployment issues is a crucial element of the J2ME application development process.

Finally, the book introduces the ideas surrounding application architecture. As we rely more heavily on computing devices that are continually becoming more pervasive, it becomes increasingly important for developers to think about reliability, performance, scalability, security, manageability, and so forth. This book gives you an introduction to these concepts and to the notion that developers must think about these characteristics from the outset.

About the Chapter

Chapter 1, "Introduction to the Java 2 Micro Edition Platform, introduces the J2ME computing platform. It defines much of the J2ME terminology and gives you a general orientation to the concepts that surrond the design and organization of the J2ME platorm. Specifically, the chapter discusses the Java platform for pervasive devices, configurations and profiles, the Connected Device Configuration (CDC), Connected Limited Device Configuration (CLDC), and the device application management systems.

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