Proposed Specification for MIDP 3

This JSR will build upon the success of MIDP2 by enhancing the Profile with the following additions/changes:

• o Enable multiple concurrent MIDlets in one VM
  o Specify proper firewalling, runtime behaviors, and lifecycle management issues for MIDlets
  o Enable background MIDlets (e.g. UI-less)
  o Enable ?auto-launched? MIDlets (e.g. started at platform boot time)
  o Enable inter-MIDlet communications
  o Improve UI expressability and extensibility
  o Better support for devices with larger displays
  o Enable MIDlets to draw to secondary display(s)
  o Enable richer and higher performance games
  o Secure RMS stores
  o Removable/remote RMS stores
  o IPv6
  o Multiple network interfaces per device

* Enable and specify proper behavior for MIDlets on each of CLDC, CDC, and OSGi, for example:

* Enable shared libraries for MIDlets
* Tighten spec in all areas to improve cross-device interoperability
* Increase functionality in all areas. E.g.

* Specify standard ways for doing MIDlet provisioning through other means (e.g. OMA (SyncML) DM/DS, Bluetooth, removable media, MMS, JSR-232, etc.)
* Extensive device capabilities query
* Localization & Internationalization (if appropriate, integrating/augmenting JSR-238 as needed)

A key design goal of MIDP3 will be backward compatibility with MIDP2 content.