Chapter 7. PIM: Accessing the Personal Information Manager

IN THIS CHAPTER

The traditional main purpose of PDAs is to serve as Personal Digital Assistants, providing access to a digital address book and calendar, as shown in Figure 7.1. The Personal Digital Assistant Profile (PDAP) contains a corresponding API, allowing you to access the device-specific address book, calendar database, and to-do lists from Java applications. This chapter discusses the Personal Information Manager (PIM) API that is available in PDAP.

Figure 7.1. The SONY CLIE Emulator showing the built-in address book containing two sample contacts.

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