Java Development

[rzr]

Hi,

I am an other linux user and frustrated to log into a (slow) windows host...

Does wine worth a try ?

http://supportforums.blackberry.com/t5/Java-Development/Installing-blackberry-on-linux/m-p/389840

Is a SDK planned for GNU/Linux , debian prefered ?

Regards

[marchywka]

I'm now pretty much on debian but now I just use two machines- I have the windoze for the RIM

and other restircted app and do everything else here. If the machine is tied up on simulator, I

can use this machine to post on forums and do other things. I haven't tried wine but I did find that

most of my cygwin script oved over pretty well- even some of my c++ code written under cygwin

worked quite well except for minor issues. When it got to the point that 500Meg or memory wasn't enough for firefox to let me post to a simple forum without minutes of VM, I moved everything I could but now I don't care any more as it just gives me more time to surf when simulator is starting up...

[ydaraishy]

I typically develop RIM-library-agnostic components of the application outside of Windows and then integrate that with UI code I develop within Windows. It's a pain, but it's functional.

[marchywka]

I just downloaded netbeans solely to do my first glassfish app witout having to think. I may use it as an editor

and make the windoze machine just a RIM server since I can invoke compile/build scripts remotely. Only

when I really need the debugger and simulator wouldI need to interact with the windoze machine.

I've been suggesting your idea to others, use j2se for non-gui stuff.

[ydaraishy]

The tricky part is comparing the SE libs to the ME libs and making sure you don't accidentally use a SE-only method or something. But one tends to keep the RIM API docs open, so that's not too difficult.

[marchywka]

Primitive code is portable code...

[PerfectReign]

I am happy to see this thread is still alive.

I had resorted to using Wintendo in a virtual machine (under VirtualBox) to develop my bb app.  It makes things more complicated to be forced into a Wintendo downgrade just to develop and test.

niklas' site (mentioned in his comment earlier) is very helpful!

[marchywka]

I guess I would mention that you can make your own implementation of some RIM classes for

j2se testing. I don't think I've done this but it is possible.

I use the g++ preprocessor and can compile for a desktop target so usually I can confine the

code.

[rzr]

I used gnu cpp too in the past, but seems j2me polish support rim, but that's an other topic to follow at :

http://supportforums.blackberry.com/t5/Java-Development/Import-existing-J2ME-App-to-Blackberry-Works...

By the are you able to debug effeciantly using eclipse + wine + sdk  ?

[nicklas]

Hi,

Here I have begun to add debug support to barry tool :

http://www.progweb.com/modules/blackberry/index-en.html

http://repo.or.cz/w/barry/progweb.git

For the moment, I know only read the console message.

If RIM wants to help me

Regards,

Nicolas