MIDP offers an impressive set of rich APIs to build GUI applications on mobile phones. In this article, we focused on the MIDP 2.0 API, which is standard on Nokia Developer Platform 2.0 devices.

Currently, GNOME's Java bindings consist of four libraries—libgconf-java, libglade-java, libgnome-java and libgtk-java. libgtk-java and libgnome-java provide the GUI components of the bindings.