Simple UI Toolkit
The simple UI toolkit (suit) is a Java-based
library of graphical components to be used in PDA and handheld devices with
reasonable resolution. The suit library adds numerous components that are not
available in the standard MIDP-1.0 API.
The MIDP-1.0 API is made to be used by different types of limited resource
devices, such as cellular phones and PDAs. As a consequence, the standard MIDP
API includes a very limited set of components that can be used because it must
cater to the lowest denominator, such as a cellular phone. This leaves
developers craving for a better set of components when writing for a PDA, for
instance, which has a bigger screen and more memory. A PDA has a greater array
of graphical interface components than a cellular phone, but these type of
components are not available in the MIDP API because it cannot be supported by
all MIDP-compliant devices.