Java 2 MicroEdition
Alrighty then…
I’ve been frustrated over my latest foray into the wonderful world of Java. So I want to do some J2ME (Java 2, Micro Edition) development.
So I decide to give Eclipse try. Download, unzip, and it’s all set. Sweet. It definitely runs faster. Doesn’t seem to have the everything-and-the-kitchen-sink menu/button thing going like NetBeans/Forte/S1Studio. After poking around, I’m enjoying myself. Things do what I expect them to do, and I can make projects and do stuff. Type-time detection of various errors, refactoring tools - very cool. Hrmm.. I like this (Sidenote: In messing around I saw it had autodetected my classpath… incorrectly it was pointing at some remnants of a Oracle install.. arghh. I’d been using an older VM.. no wonder everything is slow). I’ll just use this with that kToolBar thing from the Wireless ToolKit. Right..
“New Project” from kToolBar. It does its thing, creates a bunch of directories. I go into Eclipse, “New Project” again - it creates its things. I copy-paste a simple HelloWorld program. Save, pop over to the kToolBar, build, run… and it RUNS! OK, let’s try debugging… kToolBar: debug, Eclipse: remote debug, Emulator: doesn’t want to run the MIDlet anymore. Fool around with that for awhile until I get nowhere but older.
So.. I’m back to NetBeans/Forte/Sun ONE Studio. Fine. It runs a bit better with the proper VM.. whew. But I don’t want to limit myself to only ME stuff. And it looks like I’m suppose to be able to install the ME modules into the Community Edition. You just go to the Update Center and choose the kjava.nbm and another one. Right… Is it just me or do those 2 .nbm’s not exist? I guess I’ll just live with have both the ME and CE versions installed. Arghh.