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Step 4: Learn More

The Lightweight User Interface Toolkit (LWUIT) has impressive capabilities that go far beyond the user interface API that is included with MIDP.

• LWUIT home page
• LWUIT Tutorial

The following articles describe various features related to MIDP and MSA:

• What's New in MIDP 2.0 provides a brief overview of all the new features added to those of MIDP 1.0 in version 2.0.
• Understanding MIDP 2.0's Security Architecture provides a detailed description of security features in MIDP 2.0, including permissions, protection domains, and MIDlet suite signing.
• Over-the-Air Provisioning with the J2ME Wireless Toolkit provides further information on using the J2ME Wireless Toolkit (the precursor to the Java ME SDK) for OTA testing.
• MIDP Application Security 2: Understanding SSL and TLS describes the HTTPS protocol in detail. MIDP 2.0 implementations must support HTTPS.
• The MIDP 2.0 Push Registry is a comprehensive article that shows you how to get your MIDP 2.0 application to respond to incoming network connections.
• Using Custom Items in MIDP 2.0 is a technical tip that describes how you can write your own items for inclusion in forms.
• Creating 2D Action Games with the Game API covers MIDP 2.0's Game API, and provides two running examples.
• Mobile Media API Overview is a concise, code-oriented introduction to MMAPI. It describes the subset of MMAPI that is included in MIDP 2.0.
• The J2ME Mobile Media API lays out the basic principles of MMAPI, and walks you through code samples for playing back various types of content.
• The Wireless Messaging API describes how to use WMA to send and receive SMS text and binary messages.
• Wireless Application Programming with J2ME and Bluetooth is a comprehensive overview of the Bluetooth wireless connectivity technology.
• Part II: The Java APIs for Bluetooth Wireless Technology describes the JSR 82 standard and shows how to use its APIs to access Bluetooth devices from your own applications.