Designing and Coding

Before you can begin an actual development cycle, you must first create the directory structure that will support the development of your MIDlet suite. A MIDlet suite is a collection of MIDlets that share common application resources. You'll learn further details about these shared MIDlet resources in later chapters of this book.

I first create a directory called HelloWorld, which is the name of our first example application, under the apps/ directory of the wireless toolkit installation. This directory is the root of your new project. A project is an organized aggregation of resources—source code, resource files, compiled files—specific to one or more related applications.

The project root directory contains the subdirectories ...

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