MIDlet communication

[rel1986]

Hi,
I'm looking for a way to for two running MIDlets to communicate with each other. That way, when an event has occured on the first MIDlet, let's say a key press, the second MIDlet behaves accordingly.

I tried using socket communication on localhost, but the transmission is horrible - i've sent messages from the server socket(the first MIDlet) to the client socket(the second MIDlet) in 200 millis intervals, and the second MIDlet received only 3 of 200 messages.

I couldn't figure out a different way to do it,
can anyone enlighten me?

[juarezjunior]

Hi rel1986,

Can't you just have a reference to the second MIDlet and call a method on it when the first MIDlet receives the event? If they are on the same MIDlet suite that's possible. I might have not understood you requirement, though.

BR,

Juarez Junior

[rel1986]

I guess that it is possible, but i'll have to alter my code so that both MIDlets run through the same application.

or is there a way to get a reference to the object that your application did not create? it might work with serialization or rmi, but j2me doesn't support either.

It's not that critical, I was just wondering if communication between seperate MIDlets is available somehow..
I know that key stroke simulation is possible with symbian code, but I couldn't find a j2me low-level equivalent way to use the phone in order to pass messages between seperate j2me applications.