19.1. MIDlet Suites
One of the central goals for the MIDP application model is to provide support for the controlled sharing of data and resources between multiple, possibly simultaneously running MIDlets. To accomplish this goal while retaining a secure environment, the MIDP Specification requires that any MIDlets needing to interact and share data beyond what is enabled with the RMS record sharing in MIDP 2.0 (refer to Section 14.2.2, “Shared Record Stores”), the MIDlets must be placed into a single JAR. This collection of MIDlets encapsulated in a JAR is referred to as a MIDlet suite.
The MIDlets within a MIDlet suite share a common name space (for persistent storage), runtime object heap, and static fields in classes. In order to preserve ...
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