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Introducing the PIM Package
Many Java ME devices act as personal information managers. They contain built-in
applications that handle contacts, calendar appointments, and to-do items. Opening
these databases to third-party applications can add a lot of value, so JSR 75 defines an
optional PIM package that contains classes that abstract access to records of these appli-
cations (see Figure 7-2).
Figure 7-2.
The PIM package classes
As Figure 7-2 shows, the singleton class
PIM
is responsible for opening instances of
PIMList
subclasses, which include application record stores for the contacts, calendar,
and to-do applications. As you'll see, each subclass is represented as an
Enumeration
of
