8.1. MIDP UI Compared to Desktop AWT
The differences between mobile devices and desktop computers are evident when comparing the designs of the MIDP lcdui with the Abstract Windowing Toolkit (AWT) of the JavaTM 2 Platform, Standard Edition.
AWT was designed and optimized for desktop computers. The assumptions that are appropriate for desktop computers are not appropriate for mobile devices. For example, when a user interacts with AWT, event objects are created dynamically. These objects are short-lived and exist only until each associated event is processed by the system. The event object then becomes garbage and must be reclaimed by the garbage collector of the Java virtual machine. The limited CPU and memory subsystems of a mobile information ...
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