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Glossary
API Application Programming Interface. A set of classes used by programmers to
write applications, which provide standard methods and interfaces and
eliminate the need for programmers to reinvent commonly used code.
AMS Application Management Service. The system functionality that completes
tasks such as installing applications, updating applications, and switching
foregrounds.
Application list The screen that lists all of the installed applications. The user gets to this screen
by pressing the Apps soft key on the home screen. The application list uses text
color to show which applications are running. It also provides a system menu
that enables the user to perform application management tasks on the
highlighted application.
Background An application state in which the application does not receive events from its
input stream and its displayable is not rendered to the screen.
CDC Connected Device Configuration. A Java ME platform configuration for
devices, it requires a minimum of 2 megabytes of memory and a network
connection that is always on.
CLDC Connected Limited Device Configuration. A Java ME platform configuration
for devices with less than 512 kilobytes of RAM and an intermittent (limited)
network connection, it uses a stripped-down Java virtual machine called the
KVM, as well as several minimalist Javaplatform APIs for application services.
Configuration Defines the minimum Java runtime environment (for example, the combination
of a Java virtual machine and a core set of Java platform APIs) for a family of
Java ME platform devices.
Foreground The application state in which the application is rendered to the device display
and the input stream is passed to it.
Foreground switching Changing which application is in the foreground by shifting the focus from one
application to another.