Other Integrated Development Environments
The J2ME Wireless Toolkit and Forte for Java are not the only development environments that you can use to develop J2ME applications. Several of the IDEs that are commonly used for J2SE and J2EE development now have support for J2ME. Some of the cell phone vendors that have Java-based products in the market place have created IDE add-ins that you can use to develop software for their devices. The following list describes some of these products, together with information on where to get them. Unless otherwise noted, these products are supported only on the Windows platform.
- Borland JBuilder MobileSet
JBuilder MobileSet is an add-in for JBuilder 5 or JBuilder 6. It allows JBuilder to integrate mobile device development kits from third parties in much the same way as the J2ME Wireless Toolkit can be integrated into Forte for Java. In order to use it, you must do the following:
Install JBuilder itself, which can be downloaded from http://www.borland.co.uk/jbuilder/.
Install JBuilder MobileSet from http://www.borland.co.uk/jbuilder/mobileset/.
Download and install an appropriate adapter for a third-party wireless development kit. At the present time, Borland provides two such adapters, both of which can be downloaded from http://www.borland.co.uk/jbuilder/mobileset/. One of them allows JBuilder to integrate the J2ME Wireless Toolkit, while the other is for the Nokia Developer’s Suite.
- Nokia Developer’s Suite
The Nokia Developer Suite is an add-in ...
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