Foreword

THE progress of cell phones as application development platforms has been truly staggering over the past eight years. Even the primitive early cell phones proved to be exciting despite early difficulties with performance and interoperability. But the platforms have grown and matured significantly, and they’re growing beyond their early successes in games. The Mobile Information Device Profile (MIDP) is currently widely deployed in its second generation. Layered on top of it are APIs that significantly enrich the developer’s environment: first JTWI (Java Technology for the Wireless Industry) and now the most recent, MSA (the Mobile Services Architecture).

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