J2ME

J2ME Development: NetBeans 6.7M2 vs. Eclipse MTJ 0.91

Beren Erchamion
March 15, 2009

J2ME development is fun stuff I think. For some reason it is cool to deploy your own apps to a cellphone or a smartphone. Add in a thrill factor based on the real potential of trashing your link to the…

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Technical Review

RIM Gets Bold and Brings a Storm to Cupertino

Beren Erchamion
October 25, 2008

RIM picked Santa Clara for its first developer conference right in the back yard of new rival Apple. RIM brought a few friends with them and some pretty darn impressive new phones. There’s the “Flip” their first ‘Star Trek communicator”…

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Building a MIDlet 2.0 App for a RIM 8100

Beren Erchamion
October 7, 2008

If you read my last post then you’ll know I’m having some fun with a RIM 8100 and J2ME programming. Last time I looked at some tools and got a “Hello World” type application deployed to my phone. Now I’m…

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J2EE/Java

Going Mobile with RIM’s BlackBerry 8100

Beren Erchamion
September 28, 2008

Recently I’ve been looking at mobile application development with J2ME (Java 2 Micro Edition). Programming on mobile devices really is a tricky problem. Screen sizes are all different, memory is very constrained, processors are not exactly “robust”, and even keypads…

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