Java Development

[fsa3]

I plan on building an application with the following general behavior:

• A background thread that starts with the device and is "always running".
• A UI for changing some basic settings related to how the thread behaves. 
• When the UI is closed the thread stays running.
• A single download / installation.

I found the following link:

http://supportforums.blackberry.com/rim/board/message?board.id=java_dev&message.id=18072&query.id=33...

This is very similar to what I want to do, what's not clear to me is wether or not treating this like two applications will allow me to have a single download and installation.  Also, in general is this considered the best practice for this type of App?  Is there an alternative?

Thanks again.

[Deepesh]

Yes, this will be a good way to divide your app in two applications. one for running thread and another for UI. You can easily downlaod your these two apps in one download whether it will be thru OTA or Desktop installation.

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[fsa3]

Can you provide a little more detail on how two applications (executables) can be part of one OTA download / install?

[Deepesh · Accepted solution]

In .alx file, you can entry for multiple cod files in <files> tag. In .jad file you need to make entry for both the cod files.

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[fsa3]

Thanks a bunch.

One last question I'd like to just clarify (so I dont make a dumb mistake) - this would be 2 seperate projects in eclipse correct? Then when I'm ready to to deploy I'd manipulate the deployment files as you mentioned - correct?

[Deepesh]

I am not sure about all the settings required for this in eclipse. You can use JDE and set thread app as background auto start app and you can also set main() arguments here.

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