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June 27, 2005
The Missing Link
As far as development goes I have been using a Unix box since college. Most of the 90's I used a Sparc 1, 5, Ultra 10. I started using linux as a dev box a few years ago when the desktop started getting good enough and there was support for decent IDE's. (I've been using linux for servers since 93). When I got into mobile however in 1999 I was forced to use Windows because most of the development tools are only supported on Windows. Specifically for doing any J2ME development. About 2 years ago I switched to Mac. I use my Mac for everything. With one exception. J2ME development. For that I have to park myself in front of a Windows XP dev box. Well no more! I've finally found a solution to my woes.
My friend Corey sent me a link to MPowerPlayer which makes a super nice J2ME MIDP 2.0 emulator that works on Mac OS X. It is a real easy install and very easy to get working. It is actually much nicer than using the KDE on a windows box. It comes with a preverifier and the docs have all the ANT build scripts you need to automate it's use. I just dropped their Ant build scripts into my Eclipse project and was ready to go. Apparently there is a pretty easy way of getting MPowerPlayer to emulate inside of Eclipse. I'll work on that next.
So now I can write MIDP code on my laptop, which is great because I usually feel the need to fiddle with some MIDP when I'm traveling or have an hour to kill in a coffeeshop.
Posted by David Adams at June 27, 2005 11:00 AM
Comments
Unfortunately they removed the javax.bluetooth libraries from the distribution; you have to email them to ask for it, and they aren't particularly fast in responding either :\. So don't jump to conclussions to fast.
Posted by: Miguel Menchu at March 6, 2006 04:49 PM