Getting Started with J2ME
Can anyone recommend a SDK for J2ME on Linux? I want to try out a few things but getting started doesn’t appear to be as easy as it does with J2SE. I need the standard Java stuff as well as some sort of phone emulator.
Sun’s Toolkit needs Windows XP, as does Sony Ericsson’s. I’ve tried IBM’s WebSphere Everyplace Micro Environment, but when I start the emulator it keeps complaining about font paths. Even when I do fix the font paths it just displays the error message in a different font!
Is there a simple SDK out there?
August 1st, 2006 at 9:41 pm
Miles - If you want to borrow my copy of the O’Reilly book let me know… it’s a few years old, but does a good job of getting you started on development. Should be easy enough to set up a MIDlet on Linux, even if you can’t test it on most of the emulators.
August 1st, 2006 at 10:19 pm
I might take you up on that. I’m thinking about something that can sync up my addressbook and calendar with something online and then in turn sync that up to something on my desktop. But for my immediate needs I just want an emulator so I can analyse the traffic that’s sent out from gcalsync. It’s a nice program, but it’s not open source and it requires account details. At the moment there’s nothing of real value on my Google account so letting an unknown program have my password isn’t a huge concern, but I’d like to know what it’s doing.
August 16th, 2006 at 7:24 pm
The IBM Websphere has been nothing but a hassle for me also. It’s too bad there aren’t more open source SDK’s for it. You might try asking people in #java on IRC network FreeNode. - ben @ http://rubyonrailsblog.com/
November 22nd, 2006 at 9:17 pm
Hi.
Have you tried the NetBeans Mobility Suite ? It works for us for commercial developments on Ubuntu and Windows.
November 26th, 2006 at 11:55 am
I haven’t actually, I’ll have to check it out, especially if it works on Linux.