Creating JAD with RIM's Extensions

[jonathangmiller]

I am doing my development in NetBeans and have compiled the application into a COD file using rapc. I want to deploy the application over-the-air and using rapc doesn't create a new JAD file with RIM's Extensions to the original JAD Files, such as:
RIM-COD-Creation-Time
RIM-COD-Module-Dependencies
RIM-COD-Module-Name
RIM-COD-SHA1
RIM-COD-SIZE
RIM-COD-URL

Is there a way to generate these extensions?

Thanks,
-Jonathan

[RemyJ]

If you give rapc an "rapc" file, it'll produce a fully filled out jad file.

Ant snippet...

    
<java jar="${rim.jde.home}/bin/rapc.jar" dir="build/output" failonerror="true" fork="true">
      <arg line="-quiet -nowarn -import='${rim.jde.home}/lib/net_rim_api.jar'"/>
      <arg line="-codename=yourproject"/>
      <arg line="-rapc=yourproject.rapc"/>
      <arg line="../lib/yourproject.jar"/>
    </java>

RAPC file...

MIDlet-Name: YourProject
MIDlet-Description: YourDescription
MIDlet-Version: 0.0.0
MIDlet-Vendor: YourCompany
MIDlet-Jar-URL: yourproject.jar
MIDlet-Jar-Size: 0
MicroEdition-Profile: MIDP-2.0
MicroEdition-Configuration: CLDC-1.1
MIDlet-1: YourDescription,img/yourproject.png,
RIM-MIDlet-Flags-1: 0

[jonathangmiller]

So I got rapc to compile and create the JAD, but only if I do *not* include the "-midlet" option.

My specific command line looks like:
rapc.exe import="C:\Program Files\Research In Motion\BlackBerry JDE 4.2.1\lib\net_rim_api.jar" codename=MyCode -rapc=MyCoderapc MyCode.jar

Without this option, however, I get the error:
Warning!: No definition found for exported static routine: .main(String[])

Any suggestions how to avoid this error but still make the JAD file?

Thanks,
-Jonathan

[RemyJ]

Sounds like you're creating a J2ME Midlet instead of a Blackberry native app. I guess I should have asked.

Look in the JDE directory for a tool called UpdateJad. I thinkk that will do what you need.

[jonathangmiller]

Yes - it is a J2ME application. Here is the process I am going through:
1) Compile app into a JAR using Netbeans
2) Use rapc to convert the jar to a cod
3) Double click the COD and sign it (I use the secure APIs of GPS and http)
4) Use winzip to separate the COD into its 2 separate files (program.cod and program-1.cod)
5) Download app over the air

UpdateJad appears to just update the jar file size attribute and not create a new JAD with the appropriate fields like the SHA1 signature, etc.

[robert426]

Hi Jonathan,

I am having exactly the same problem - did you find a solution?

I cannot create a modified JAD when I use the -midlet option.

[reach.shansi]

Hi.,

I had done a webservices application in mds studio and published the same. Now i got .jar file only. If i want to download the app thru OTA, i could not use .jar file. It is asking for .jad file.

Then i created .jad file by using jadmaker.exe. But when i gave the path for this jad in bookmark( in simulator) its asking for "midlet name",midlet version.
I updated the jad and it started downloading the application.

But atlast point it shows error like " invalid cod file" .

what should i do?
can anybody help me on this?

Shansi

[the_golden_gunman]

Bumping this thread because I am experiencing the same problems as jonathangmiller.

I am running Rapc like this:

rapc import="net_rim_api.jar" codename=TEST -midlet jad=test_bb8100.jad test_bb8100.jar

Please note that I have moved "net_rim_api.jar" to the same directory as rapc.

As jonathangmiller mentions, this builds me a .cod file, but it does not create a .jad file.

[CJLopez]

Originally Posted by reach.shansi

Hi.,

I had done a webservices application in mds studio and published the same. Now i got .jar file only. If i want to download the app thru OTA, i could not use .jar file. It is asking for .jad file.

Then i created .jad file by using jadmaker.exe. But when i gave the path for this jad in bookmark( in simulator) its asking for "midlet name",midlet version.
I updated the jad and it started downloading the application.

But atlast point it shows error like " invalid cod file" .

what should i do?
can anybody help me on this?

Shansi

For MDS Studio and Visual Studio MDS Plugin you need to publish your application to a BES Manager with MDS Service. You won't ever be able to install a MDS application if you are not deploying it to a BES Manager