Deployment and Execution

Deployment and Execution
You've now gone through the edit (program creation), compilation, preverification, and packaging
steps. Finally, you're ready to deploy and run your application. In the real world, the MIDlet
developer would upload the JAR file to some application provisioning system. (Application
provisioning systems are discussed in chapter 10.) Provisioning systems offer applications for
download following deployment. Users download the MIDlet suite JAR file to their device and
execute it with the help of the device's application management system software.
For the purposes of the discussion in this chapter, deployment means placing the files under the
control of the J2ME Wireless Toolkit Emulator. You can then execute the application in the
emulator, simulating its execution on an actual device.
Instead of just showing you how to place the packaged application files under the control of the
Wireless Toolkit for execution, the next section shows you how to perform the full development
cycle that you just completed with the Wireless Toolkit. The latter part of that discussion will
show you how to execute your applications.