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BlackBerry Java Application Development

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BlackBerry Java Application Development

Overview of this book

BlackBerry Smartphone was once the domain of jet-setting business users with power suits. Now you can hardly go anywhere without seeing someone using a BlackBerry to check their messages or make a call. It's this kind of explosive growth that makes the BlackBerry ecosystem a great place to develop and market applications through the BlackBerry App World store—this book shows you how to do just that! This step-by-step guide gives you a hands-on experience of developing innovative Java applications for your BlackBerry. With the help of this book, you will learn to build your own applications to illustrate the platform, and the various capabilities that developers can use in their programs. It explores the powers of Blackberry and helps you develop professional and impressive Java applications. The book teaches how to write rich, interactive, and smart BlackBerry applications in Java. It expects the readers to know Java but not Java Mobile or the BlackBerry APIs. We will learn to build rich, interactive, and smart Java applications for the BlackBerry. The book will cover UI programming, data storage, programming network, and internet API apps. As we move on, we will learn more about the BlackBerry's device features, such as messaging, GPS, multimedia, contacts and calendar, and so on.This book also helps you build your own applications to illustrate the platform, and the various capabilities that developers can use in their programs.
Table of Contents (18 chapters)
BlackBerry Java Application Development
Credits
About the Author
Acknowledgement
About the Reviewers
Preface

The Java way: RMS


RMS is probably the simplest, and least powerful, of the three approaches because it is a Java standard that has to be implemented the same way on many different devices. It is basic and functional, but not terribly easy to use.

RMS allows an application to create one or more record stores, which in turn stores one or more records. Each record is one large array of bytes and can be of any size, subject to the limits of the OS. RMS does not provide or understand any structure of the data in each record.

The RecordStore class is at the heart of RMS. Because the RecordStore is a Java standard, it is found in the javax.microedition.rms package instead of the BlackBerry-related packages. The RecordStore class can be instantiated to represent a single RecordStore object, but it also contains several static methods for operating on record stores in general. Methods such as listRecordStore and deleteRecordStore are available at any time and do not require a RecordStore instance...