Wireless J2ME™ Platform Programming

Chapter 11. The Wireless Internet Environment

• Background, Terminology, and Concepts

• The Wireless Application Environment

• Wireless Applications

• Application Architecture

At this point, you know how to write MIDP applications and how to deploy them, with the help of provisioning systems, in real wireless environments. Chapter 10 alluded to the wireless Internet environment that hosts MIDP applications. In order to write effective commercial applications, developers need to understand the wireless Internet environment—what it is, how it works, its relationship to the wireless network, what support it has for applications, and the constraints it imposes on application development.

This chapter discusses the wireless Internet environment from the point ...