Chapter 3. MIDP Application Program Structure

  • The Application Execution Lifecycle

  • MIDlet Program Structure

  • The MIDlet State Model

  • The MIDP UI Component Model

  • System Properties

  • Application Properties

In this chapter, you'll learn about the basic abstractions and programming model that the MIDP defines. It's necessary to understand the basic MIDP programming model in order to write MIDP applications. You must also understand the abstractions defined by the user interface (UI) components in order to build user interfaces using the MIDP. Before looking at source code, however, you must first understand the MIDlet execution lifecycle.

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