Chapter 2. The MIDP Application Development Process

  • Designing and Coding

  • Compilation

  • Preverification

  • Packaging

  • Deployment and Execution

  • Using the J2ME Wireless Toolkit

As you already know, J2ME applications are Java programs and execute under the control of a Java VM. For this reason, all J2ME devices must support a Java runtime environment. MIDP applications, like any other application, go through a development cycle. This chapter discusses the development cycle and process for MIDP applications.

Disconnected devices like mobile phones typically don't have development environments built into them. Without a development environment on the device itself, developers must do cross-platform development—develop an application on another system, download ...

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