BlackBerry Push Development

[Thomas-LEB]

Can anyone help me figure out how to test the sample push application on the simulator?

I have tried to test it on my device, but the problem is that I cannot access the PC from the internet I don't have an IP address and the localhost thing won't work

please can anyone give me a way to test the push sample application

thank you

[massimo_olive]

You can't test BIS push on the simulator.

[Thomas-LEB]

so how do you test the sample application ??

any solution??

[massimo_olive]

You sign up for a sandbox push eval account, install the server-side sample app, hand held sample app on a real BlackBerry device and away you go.

[Thomas-LEB]

How can I install the server side sample app on my PC and have access to it from the handheld if my PC cannot be accessed from the internet ( I don't have a fixed IP)

from what I have found the only way to test the push sdk sample app is:

1. Install the server-side sample on a host server with a fixed IP address ( not on a local PC)

2. Install the client side sample app on the BIS enable handheld

is this correct??

[ekke]

If you register for Push Services SDK, then since some time in the Credentials you got the information:

Source IP: Whitelist no longer required

You can send Push Messages out from your local PC without a static IP

(I'm doing this always while testing Push Services:

working from a Home Office with DSL and changing IP's each day)

Attention for PLUS services !

If you register for Push Services PLUS you also have to register a 'Base Notification URL' -

something like 'http://myserver.de'

pushing messages you send the notification URL, per ex. /notifyme

then BlackBerry Push Server notifies you at: 'http://myserver.de/notifyme'

now you can use a service like DynDns.org to get the notifications

or - what I'm doing:

I have a server with static IP, but don't want to do the development tests there, but from time to time I deploy to this server to test it from a 'real server'.

while working from my home office I forward the notification from the real to my dyndns address

[fmaylinch]

Hi, if you mean push messages you can find the HttpPushDemo here: https://developer.blackberry.com/java/documentation/int_http_push_1988896_11.html

You also need the MDS simulator, that you can find it here: http://us.blackberry.com/sites/developers/resources/simulators.html

I suppose you have the BlackBerry JDE Eclipse but you can find it here: http://es.blackberry.com/developers/javaappdev/#

In the HttpPushDemo you'll find a readme. Skip steps 3 and 4 because I think they refer to an old BlackBerry JDE.

One last thing: my Eclise started with Java7 and that caused a problem with some regex pattern. If you experience this problem, try using Java6.