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Using kXML to access XML files on J2ME devices

Naveen Balani spends most of his time designing and developing J2EE-based products. He has written various articles and white papers for IBM developerWorks, covering topics such as web services, JMS, AXIS, MQSeries, WebSphere Studio, Java wireless devices, DB2 Everyplace for Palm, Java on EPOC, and wireless data synchronization. You can reach him at naveenbalani@rediffmail.com.
(An IBM developerWorks Master Author, Level 3)

Summary:  This tutorial will detail the use of kXML 2, a small XML pull parser specially designed for constrained environments, to access, parse, and display XML files for Java 2 Micro Edition-enabled devices. This tutorial will demonstrate how to build a mobile application that brings XML data to wireless J2ME devices, and will instruct the reader in how to craft a MIDlet that performs the necessary logic and deploys it to a J2ME environment.

Date:  23 Sep 2003
Level:  Introductory PDF:  A4 and Letter (137 KB | 15 pages)Get Adobe® Reader®

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About this tutorial

This tutorial details the use of kXML 2r2.1.8, a small XML pull parser specially designed for constrained environments, to access, parse, and display XML files for Java 2 Micro Edition (J2ME)-enabled devices. This kXML version is based on the common XML pull API and is BSD-licensed. This tutorial demonstrates how to build a mobile application that brings XML data to wireless J2ME devices, and instructs you on how to craft a MIDlet that performs the necessary logic and deploys it to a J2ME environment.


Prerequisites

To use the information in this tutorial, you should have a good working knowledge of J2ME and XML. Before you start working, you will need the following downloads:

  • The J2ME Wireless Toolkit 2.0, which can be found at http://java.sun.com/products/j2mewtoolkit/download-2_0.html.
  • The Java SDK 1.4.1 (Java Software Developers Kit), available at http://java.sun.com/j2se/1.4.1/download.html.
  • The kXML 2r2.1.8 (http://kobjects.dyndns.org/kobjects/auto?self=$dikgikg2).
  • The sample code (see the Downloads section) that accompanies this article.

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