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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

Time for action - accessing the PersistentObject data


  1. 1. Modify the code you just added to add the call to setContents in the if statement to match the following code.

    if (JournalStoreObject.getContents() == null)
    {
    _EntryList = new Vector();
    JournalStoreObject.setContents(_EntryList);
    }
    else
    {
    _EntryList = (Vector)JournalStoreObject.getContents();
    }
    
  2. 2. Next, add the call to commit to the onClose method.

    JournalStoreObject.commit();
    

What just happened?

These two calls are all that is needed to save your data to the PersistentStore. The call to the commit method was placed into the onClose method because we want to save the data when the application exits, but it doesn't have to be. You may have a good reason to call the commit method in the middle of your application for some reason and there is no problem in doing so.

The call to setContents also requires a little explanation. Notice that the call to the setContents method is made only in one of the two branches of the if statement. If the...