@MSohm: Building the app, installing it into the BB Simulator and launching the BB Simulator is not the problem. This works since beginning.
> you'll need to start your application from within the BlackBerry Simulator by selecting its icon on the home screen (unless it is an auto start application).
That is the point, because: exactly this is what I really hate to do every time. When developing e.g. under Eclipse with the Nokia E90 Emulator the midlet is started at once in the emulator there. Under Blackberry you have two disadvantages:
1. the small disadvantage: the emulator takes more time to launch up (compared with the Nokia E90 emulator 3-5 times slower?)
2. the big disadvantage: you have to select your application from within the emulator. very unnecessary step which I would like to overgo. Is it possible to built in something like an option to directly start the application?
The Deployment via Blackberry Desktop Software / Manager is in my opinion a mess: sometimes (?) the Blackberry device needs to reboot before the application can be deleted or upgraded to a new version. Deploying on a Blackberry device can take up to 15 minutes, which is just to long in my opinion.
Furthermore the 64 KB packet limitation can produce some hair loss, and the J2ME aka RIM implementation is not really fully compatible as I have seen today:
The midlets' startApp() method may under some special contents not paint anything until it has reached the end of this method. Under some circumstances (or is it everytime?) YOU MAY HAVE TO paint in a separated thread, IFF painting at the beginning of midlet constructor or startApp() will not show any results.
