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Preface


The Using MIDP describes how to manage the device emulator and MIDlet suites. It covers setting the security policy for the MIDP Reference Implementation’s device emulator, managing the public keys available to the emulator, and using the emulator to run and manage MIDlets and MIDlet suites. It assumes that you have already installed the product, as described in Installing MIDP.

How This Book Is Organized

This book has the following chapters and appendices:

Chapter 1 shows the device emulator’s graphical user interface and describes how to interact with it to manage and run MIDlet suites.

Chapter 2 shows you how to use the command-line interface to the device emulator to manage and run MIDlet suites.

Chapter 3 describes the MIDP Reference Implementation’s security features and shows you how to manage the security policy of the device emulator.

Chapter 4 shows you how to manage the certificate authority keys needed for secure network protocols and MIDlet authorization.

Appendix A describes the JadTool utility using a man-page format.

Appendix B describes the MEKeyTool utility using a man-page format.

Appendix C describes the midp command using a man-page format.

Appendix D describes the preverify tool using a man-page format.

Using Operating System Commands

This document may not contain information on basic UNIX® or Microsoft Windows commands and procedures such as opening a terminal window, changing directories, and setting environment variables. See the software documentation that you received with your system for this information.

Typographic Conventions

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Shell Prompts

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Related Documentation

The following documentation is included with this release:

Application
Title
All
Release Notes
Installing
Installing MIDP
Running and managing security for emulator
Using MIDP
Porting the MIDP Reference Implementation
Porting MIDP
Creating and building MIDlets
Creating MIDlet Suites
Viewing reference documentation created by the Javadoc™ tool
API Reference
Looking at examples
Example Overview

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http://developer.java.sun.com/developer/infodocs/

Sun Welcomes Your Comments

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