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Chapter 7. PIM: Accessing the Personal Information
Manager
IN THIS CHAPTER
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ToDo API
The traditional main purpose of PDAs is to serve as Personal Digital Assistants, providing access
to a digital address book and calendar, as shown in
Figure 7.1
.
The Personal Digital Assistant
Profile (PDAP) contains a corresponding API, allowing you to access the device-specific address
book, calendar database, and to-do lists from Java applications. This chapter discusses the
Personal Information Manager (PIM) API that is available in PDAP.
Figure 7.1. The SONY CLIE Emulator showing the built-in address book containing
two sample contacts.
For J2SE and PersonalJava the so called JavaPhone API is available (see
http://java.sun.com/products/javaphone/
)
. Because the PDAP implementation intends to have a
very small footprint, which is necessary to fit in the small RAM of CLDC devices, adopting the
JavaPhone API completely or just providing a JavaPhone subset would be inappropriate. In order
to accomplish the request to minimize the PIM footprint, PDAP defines an optional PIM API in
the package
javax.microedition.pim
.
In the following section, we will begin with the description of the general structure of the PIM
API, and then go into the details of accessing the address book, calendar, and to-do lists. Finally,
we'll show you how to create a demonstration MIDlet that is capable of accessing the address
book of the device.
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