When Sun Microsystems introduced Java 2 Platform, Micro Edition (J2ME, which was renamed recently to Java ME) to the world in 2000, the promise was to bring Java's "write once, run anywhere" ...

In this article, an excerpt from the book Beginning J2ME (Apress, April 2005; ISBN: 1590594797), authors Jonathan Knudsen and Sing Li explain how to build and run a simple MIDlet.