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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 - calling a web service


  1. 1. The first step is to get the CopyCat service working. This service is written in .NET and is built with Microsoft Visual Studio 2008 and can be found in the code bundle of this book. Not everyone will have access to this tool so feel free to create a web service using your favorite tool. The thing we are interested in at this point is a web method named CopyMe that accepts a string parameter named Value and returns a string. In fact, the implementation of CopyMe is exceedingly simple as it just returns the same string that was passed into it.

  2. 2. As you actually need to send data to a server now, you need to start by adding an edit field to the application that prompts for the data to send. Add an EditField as a data member to the application.

    protected EditField _CopyString = new EditField();
    
  3. 3. Next, add the field to the screen by adding this code into the constructor.

    _CopyString.setLabel("Copy Source: ");
    _CopyString.setMaxSize(50);
    _add(CopyString...