11Building BlackBerry Java Applications

BlackBerry applications written in Java provide the most capabilities to the BlackBerry user. Developers who want to provide the best possible performance and experience for their end users will likely want to build their applications using Java. This chapter provides the information a developer needs to begin building Java applications for BlackBerry.

RIM provides extensive documentation for the BlackBerry Java platform, so do not expect this chapter to tell you everything you need to know about writing applications in Java. To cover every aspect of BlackBerry Java development could easily consume a book twice the size of this one. Instead, this chapter focuses on some of the BlackBerry-specific tasks ...

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