Java Mobile Development

The Lightweight User Interface Toolkit or LWUIT, a project to enable J2ME developers to create consistent and easily usable mobile Java applications, has made its source code available under the GPL2 license. Previously a binary only download was provided by the project.

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I’m starting a series of articles on how to install different Java mobile SDK’s from different mobile phone manufacturers. These SDK’s usually have emulators for their handsets that is needed in testing J2ME software. I’m starting off the series with a how-to for the Nokia S60 SDK.

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A patch containing a bunch of fixes for NetBeans 6.1 is now available. The patch includes bug fixes in modules for BPEL, C/C++, Composite Application, Database, Editing Files, GlassFish, IDE Platform, JSF, Java, Java Debugger, Java Profiler, Mercurial, NetBeans 6.1, NetBeans Plugin Development, Platform, RESTful Web Services, Ruby, SOA, Spring Web MVC, Visual JSF, WSDL, Web Applications, Web Services, XML and Schema.

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If you want the latest and greatest of the NetBeans IDE, you can now download NetBeans 6.5 milestone 1 from the NetBeans web site. Some note worthy mobility enhancements are included in the upcoming version 6.5 release not to mention the much anticipated improvements in JavaScript support and of course PHP (I’ve tried out the early access and I’m eagerly awaiting for version 6.5.

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While going thru my mail this morning, I came across a tutorial for a crash course on creating mobile Java games. The tutorial is clear and simple and discusses in a step by step manner on how to create mobile Java games. The author, Anders, actually does it by going thru an example of a mobile game that he created.

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Motorola has announced the availability of the MotoDev Studio 1.4 for developing J2ME applications. Support has been added for several Motorola mobile phones. If you remember, Motorola has taken lead of the EclipseME project and has released MotoDev Studio which is based on Eclipse and EclipseME.

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In a bid to make it more easier for J2ME developers to create more consistent mobile Java applications, a group of developers at java.net have created the LWUIT project.

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Cascada Mobile’s Breeze platform is now available under beta. Breeze is a mobile development tool that provides anyone with knowledge of even the most basic Web programming languages the easiest method for creating, testing and distributing mobile applications to phones anywhere in the world.

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This June, Sun Tech Days will be in Manila (Philippines). The tracks are pretty interesting so if you happen to be in Manila and you’re a Java developer, you might want to register for the event. For the mobile Java developers, there’s Java ME: Extreme GUI Makeover for Mobile Phones session.

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If you’re one of those guys who is using the latest and greatest of the NetBeans IDE for your development work, you might want to update your NetBeans IDE.

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