17.7. New for MIDP 2.0

Event-driven application launch is a new feature in MIDP 2.0. This feature makes it possible to create applications that can be launched at a preset time or that can respond to events generated by network services.

The ability to define applications that will be launched on a specific network protocol event enables the creation of new kinds of services that can monitor information in the network and can notify a MIDlet suite automatically when the information changes.

The event-driven launch of MIDlets is subject to the security policy of a device, and this feature can be enabled and disabled at the discretion of the user. ...

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