Programming Wireless Devices with the Java 2 Platform

In addition to the functional categories discussed elsewhere in this book, the MIDP Specification defines some additional APIs that do not fill their own chapters....

Timer Support MIDlets may need to delay or schedule activities to be performed at a later time. The MIDP Specification provides two mechanisms to enable this: Timers...

System Properties MIDP inherits the system property mechanism from CLDC (see Section 5.2.10, "Property Support"). In addition to the properties provided by the CLDC, the MIDP...

MIDP provides the capability of storing resources in the application's JAR that can be accessed by a MIDlet at run time. An example of such...

Exiting a MIDlet The CLDC Specification states that a call to the method java.lang.System.exit is effectively equivalent to calling the method Runtime.getRuntime().exit. This means that in...