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MIDP3.0 OVERVIEW

What is new in MIDP3.0?

• Enhanced LCDUI
• LIBlets - Shared code between MIDlets
• Concurrency - Execute more that one MIDlet at same time
• Application and System Events
• Inter MIDlet Communication - IMC
• Application Level Access Control - APLAC
• Screen Saver MIDlet
• Auto Start & Controlling User actions on MIDlets
• Provisioning Record Stores - OTA RMS

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MIDP3.0 JSR 271

• Expert group formed in March 2005

• Expert Group Lead by Mike Milikich from Motorola
• Over 100 members including:
• Device Manufacturers
• Network Operators
• Application & Content Developers
• VM Vendors

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MIDP3.0 Release date

• Final Approved Version Expected Q2-2008

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MIDP3.0 LCDUI – High Level

• Custom layout support:

• Application controls Layout of items in a Form
• Flow and Table Layout
• Commands
• Improved placement control
• Sub – Commands
• Icons
• Tabbed Panes – each pane contains a Screen
• Idle Item support
• Image Item to support GIF / animated GIF

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MIDP3.0 LCDUI – Low Level

• Support for multiple Displays and orientations

• Alpha blending
• Image enhancements
• Animated Images
• Transparent mutable Images
• Scaling and rotation
• Application-provided Fonts
• Splash screens

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LIBlets

• Shareable components that one or many midlets can use

• Expose a set of API’s and resources that a MIDlet can use
• Inert code and resource fragments that only execute within
a MIDlet context.
• Save static footprint size by preventing LIBlet code packaged
in each MIDlet.
• Potentially reduce download times for applications

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LIBlets

• LIBlet code does not execute by itself

• LIBlet is executed in the MIDlet’s execution enviroment
• A binding: act of loading a MIDlet with all associated
LIBlets into a single execution enviroment.
• Jars are all in the classpath

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Concurrency

• Multiple MIDlets: AMS provides a means to launch

multiple applications
• MIDlets in the background, not visible to the user
• Auto Start MIDlets
• Screen Saves MIDlets

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Application and System Events

• MIDlets can generate applicatino events

• MIDlets can listen to System events
• Battery
• power on/off
• idle event
• Push registration on events:
• Application launch on event
• launch application on flip/close

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Inter MIDlet Communication (IMC)

• Communication between multiple running MIDlets

• Low-level bi-directional stream connection within the device
• GCF based – Connector.open(“imc://...”);
• An IMC Server is created with a name, and the client tries
to connect to this named service.

MIDlet A MIDlet B

IMCConnection IMCServerConnection

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APLAC

• Application Level Access Control (APLAC)

• MIDlets interact via Events, IMC, RMS
• Restrinct interactions based on
• Domain
• Signer
• Vendor

• E.g. Share a record store only with MIDlets that

are developed by a specific Vendor

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