Mobile Information Device Profile for Java 2 MicroEdition: Professional Developer's Guide

A hands-on programming guide for the most active wireless application environment--cell phones and pagers

In his previous book, Java 2 Micro Edition (0-471-39065-8), Eric Giguere showed why Sun's J2ME is fast becoming the dominant language for all handheld devices. In this new book, the Ortiz-Giguere team explains how to use the J2ME Mobile Information Device Profile (MIDP) to write Java applications for wireless devices like cell phones and two-way pagers as well as more powerful devices like the Palm VII. The authors begin with a basic tutorial on J2ME, then quickly move on to explain how to use MIDP to write full-featured applications for cell phones and pagers. Using real case studies and code, they walk developers through all the necessary topics, including GUIs, client/server and peer-to-peer communications, HTTP, XML, databases, WAP, security issues, MIDP and J2EE in the Enterprise and much more.

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 GIGUERE 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.