Java Micro Edition (JME)

Soham Sengupta
Sr. Lecturer, Dept of IT, JIS College of Engineering, Kalyani, India formerly, Systems Engineer Tata Consultancy Services Author, Developerworks, IBM, US Community Member, Nokia Wireless(JME) Forum
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Java And Its Three Editions

Java is the oldest, and most robust, platform independent open source language-turned-to-technology,having 3 editions till date J2SE (Java 2 Standard Edititon) J2EE (Java 2 Enterprise Edition) J2ME (Java 2 Micro Edition)
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J2ME what and why?

With the advancement of wireless communication systems the market for Mobile Handset manufacturers has soared Different Manufacturers with different OS and hardware. So, the task of mobile software maintenance and making becomes difficult and no single programmer can master all languages. Since Java is platform independent, the issue is resolved
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J2ME Versus J2SE & J2EE

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Why the term ME

ME in J2ME stands for Micro Edition as it is supposed to run in an environment that has little processing power and very less amount of RAM as compared to a PC. KVM: Stands for Kilobyte Virtual Machine as it needs RAM in the order of Kilo Bytes where as in case of JVM, it is in the order of Mega Bytes. This is the interface between native platform and java byte code thats platform independent.
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Backbone of J2ME

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J2ME Architecture

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MIDP

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APIs overview

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J2ME Forum
Sun Micro Systems has joined in hands with IBM, Nokia, Motorola, Ericsson, Samsung et al formed a J2ME forum that is till date contributing to the world of Mobile Software. The greatest challenge till date is Standardizing a Speech Recognition API JSR 113 for Micro Edition and its one of the biggest challenge before J2ME Forum as J2ME did not support floating point arithmetic and hence complex mathematical computation.
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MIDlet as unit of JME Application

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MIDlet Life Cycle

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Building A J2ME Project

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User Interface

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User Interface Hierarchy

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Getting Started with Sun Wireless Toolkit 2.2

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Creating a Project with WTK 2.2

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package com.webel;

Codes Explanation

import javax.microedition.midlet.*; import javax.microedition.lcdui.*; public class MIDletWEBEL extends MIDlet implements CommandListener { private Display display=null; private Command cmdExit=null; private Command cmdSayHello=null; private Form form=null;
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Constructor: Codes Continued

public MIDletWEBEL(){ display=Display.getDisplay(this); cmdExit=new Command("EXIT",Command.EXIT,1); cmdSayHello=new Command("Say Hello",Command.SCREEN,1); form=new Form("Demo for WEBEL"); form.addCommand(cmdExit); form.addCommand(cmdSayHello); form.setCommandListener(this); display.setCurrent(form); }
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Callback Methodscodes contd

public void startApp(){ } public void pauseApp(){ } public void destroyApp(boolean boolUC){ }
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Listener Methodcodescontd..
public void commandAction(Command cmd,Displayable displ){ if(cmd==cmdExit){ destroyApp(true); notifyDestroyed(); } if(cmd==cmdSayHello){ Alert alert=new Alert("Hello Students","Hi Friends!",null,AlertType.INFO); alert.setTimeout(5000); display.setCurrent(alert); } }
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