Pro Java ME Apps

Chapter 2

A Java ME Framework

There are a few more steps we have to take before we begin work on the actual application. Most of them are trivial, like setting up source control and creating an IDE project, so we will skip those entirely. However, there is one very important step we cannot skip: writing our application's framework.

The following chapter serves a dual purpose: it both goes over the basics of the framework we will be using and serves as a basis for how Java ME frameworks in general should be written.

With this in mind, our framework, though functional, will be greatly simplified in nature. The code will be kept as simple as possible, with everything that is not necessary either omitted or reduced to the bare minimum. As such, ...