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Mobile information device profile for Java 2 MicroEdition

Name: Mobile information device profile for Java 2 MicroEdition
Author: C. Enrique Ortiz,Eric Giguère
ISBN: 9780471034650

by C. Enrique Ortiz, Eric Giguère

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Overview

Master the newest way of creating applications for wireless devices!

As the first Java 2 Micro Edition (J2ME) profile, the Mobile Information Device Profile (MIDP) brings the power of Java to handheld devices like cell phones, interactive pagers, and personal digital assistants (PDAs). With this practical, hands-on reference, you'll learn how to create MIDP applications, with real development scenarios covering user interfaces, database networking, XML, security, and more. This timely book follows on the heels of Giguère's Java 2 Micro Edition to offer you the definitive guide to understanding and using the Mobile Information Device Profile. This complete guide to MIDP programming covers such topics as:

The basics of J2ME
How to build and run MIDP applications
MIDP programming examples
The MIDP user interface model
Persisting data with MIDP
Using HTTP as a way to exchange data with servers on the Internet
The importance of security for wireless devices
Writing MIDP applications that use XML
Future directions of MIDP

The companion Web site at www.wiley.com/compbooks/ortiz updates the material in the book and provides additional examples and resources as well as current links to the various specifications and toolkits mentioned throughout the book.

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About the Author, C. Enrique Ortiz,Eric Giguère

C. Enrique Ortiz is Chief Mobile Architect and co-CTO for AGEA Corporation, a wireless infrastructure software company. He has served as lead developer at both Pervasive Software and IBM's Multimedia Server Development Group. Prior to IBM, he was the lead software engineer for the IBM Space Shuttle Onboard System Software. He holds a BS degree in computer science from the University of Puerto Rico.

Eric Giguère is a software developer for iAnywhere Solutions, Inc., a Sybase company, where he focuses on wireless and handheld computing. He is the author of Wiley's Java 2 Micro Edition: Professional Developer's Guide and Palm Database Programming: The Complete Developer's Guide. He holds BMath and MMath degrees in computer science from the University of Waterloo.