Java Development

[jzanni]

Hi all,

  i've got another question 

  how can i compile classes outside an IDE? i tryed with javac but i hava an error 

  javac: invalid flag: .BlackBerryPreprocessed

  i called javac in this way

  javac -cp net_rim_api.jar -sourcepath src -d generated *

  is there something wrong? i goggled a little, but i didn't found any help... could you help me?

thanks

James

[dpreussler]

you still have to use the RIM compiler which is part of JDE or can be downloaded seperately as component package.

the exe is called rapc.exe

You could also use BBAnt which is an extension based on ANT buildfiles

[marchywka]

AFAIK you can compile for j2se but nothing will run. IIRC, the compiler can use the RIM libs

to check signatures and import but there is no j2se libary to let you run the mess on your desktop

as an altnerative to the full blown emulator. Personally I've always thought this would be a good

way to test a lot of code and in fact for non-GUI pieces, I have conditional compilation that

let's me test stuff under j2se ( mostly b-tree index stuff). In this mode, I have conditional imports

and just compile with javac  and run without benefit of RIM or j2me packages.