Developing Software for Wireless Devices Robert Hatch Sean Meredith James Pate Williams, Jr.

Overview Sun Java SDK 1.3 Forte Sun Java Micro Edition Packages of MIDP

Desirable Software Components Sun Java 1.3.1+ Software Development Kit Sun Forte 3.0 Integrated Development Environment Sun Java 2 Micro Edition Wireless Toolkit All are freely downloadable from Sun and require at least a 450 MHz Pentium II with 128 MB of RAM

Sun Java 2 SDK 1.3 Improvements more robust than previous Java SDKs sound API that includes a MIDI synthesizer and sequencer support for the Java 2 Micro Edition Wireless Toolkit

Sun Forte 3.0 Integrated Development Environment for Java programming comparable to Borland’s JBuilder 5.0 constructed using Java a resource hog

Sun Java2 ME Wireless Toolkit Version 1.0.3 can be used either in integrated mode with Forte 3.0 or as a stand alone product. The integrated version is easier for code development and testing The Wireless Toolkit implements a Mobile Information Device Profile (MIDP) for some common wireless devices

Wireless Toolkit The toolkit includes the following emulators: default grey phone minimum phone Motorola i85s Palm OS device RIM Java handheld

Wireless Toolkit The emulators can function fairly closely to read devices in terms of the GUIs that they offer.

Java Mobile Information Device Profile (MIDP) Consists of five packages: user interface package persistence package application lifecycle package networking package core packages

User Interface Package Listener interfaces ChoiceAPI CommandListener ItemStateListener Buttons defined as commands actions can be captured by implementing the CommandListener interface, e.g. by defining the commandAction method

User Interface Package: Common GUI Elements Alert Canvas Command ChoiceGroup DateField Display Font Form Gauge Graphics Image Item List Screen Ticker

Persistence Package Components Associated class RecordComparator RecordEnumeration RecordFilter RecordListener Associated class RecordStore - a class representing a record store

Application Lifecycle Package Defines Mobile Information Device Profile applications and interactions between the application and the environment in which the application runs Class associated MIDlet - MIDP application on the device States Paused Active Destroyed

MIDlet Life Cycle

Networking Package Components Connection ContentConnection Datagram DatagramConnection HttpConnection InputConnection

Networking Package Components Associated class OutputConnection StreamConnection StreamConnectionNotifier Associated class Connector - placeholder for the static methods that are used for creating all the Connection jobs.

Networking Package Support for stream connections (TCP/IP) and datagram connections (UDP/IP) TCP/IP - connection-oriented protocol; reliable and in-order delivery of packets UDP/IP - connectionless-oriented protocol; unreliable and possibly out-of-order delivery of packets

Networking Package (Cont.) Some wireless devices such as Palm OS devices do not offer the datagram protocol and only use stream connections Java MIDP supports HTTP connections TCP/IP networking is fairly straightforward and only requires a few lines of code to implement

Core Packages java.io java.lang java.util

Wireless Device Software Development Steps Create a MIDlet suite template using Forte 3.0 Fill in the MIDlet details to incorporate desired functionality Execute code on various emulators; the same code behaves differently on distinct platforms Port code to desired device Test on an actual wireless device

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