[hidefguy]

Is anyone here using the Eclipse IDE (that uses SWT) rather than the Blackberry IDE to develop Blackberry apps?
thanks
Greg

[eradis]

Yes I am using eclipse.

[hidefguy]

Originally Posted by eradis

Yes I am using eclipse.

Really? You've managed to integrate use of the Blackberry emulator with Eclipse? Are you using Antenna/ant for the build? Please, more details...

It would be very helpful to learn from a pro blackberry developer what their IDE setup and config is - as a professional java developer of many years experience, but brand new to J2ME, there's no way that I would seriousy use the RIM-supplied IDE.

Greg

[eradis]

I am using eclipse with antenna. The newest release has a "blackberry" type configuration. I have also developed my own JADTask plugins that help a great deal. If your familiar with developing plugins for eclipse it is certainly recommended.

There is also a open source initiative for eclipse micro edition
http://eclipseme.sourceforge.net/


The emulator is no big deal. Eclipse is a very versatile dev. environment.

[hidefguy]

Thanks for the info eradis, I'll check this out.

[movalys_matt]

I am very interested in this topic too (cause some features like automatic completion and so on are really poor on bb jde)

[phpsurf]

That's so great ! I was about to hang myself so I was depressed looking at the lacks of JDE !

Can you post more tricks on how you managed to plug the JDE debugger/simulator into Eclipse ?

Thanks

[freat]

I'm a big fan of Eclipse and would love to know how to set it up to develop for the BB. A howto document sure would be nice... if you could get it started with your experiences, I'm sure we could all contribute as we get our environments up and running.

[dinouye]

Sounds like a good idea, I've been using the BB JDE and it seems a little unreasonable :o is it just my gimpy notebook or does this thing sit in over 100M worth of memory for everyone? I just added more RAM yesterday cause it was driving me nuts just switching between my browser and IDE. Anyhow I'll give setting up Eclipse a try too and post findings.

Darren

[phpsurf]

let's start with this very good article :
http://www.mobilizedsoftware.com/sho...cleId=48800167

[cip]

That's good, but how about debugging BB apps with Eclipse?

Originally Posted by phpsurf

let's start with this very good article :
http://www.mobilizedsoftware.com/sho...cleId=48800167

[dolphinUK]

post doesn't exist any more. can the person you got this to work please help on how they integrated with eclipse, thanks!

[Creepy Gnome]

I too found the Blackberry provided IDE (JDE) to be horrible, outdated, and just plain lame. It would have been better if they spent there time writing plug-ins for both Eclipse and Netbeans to support Blackberry development.

However, a quick Google gave me the following helpful pages on how to setup other IDE's (which is how I found this thread):

BlackBerry Java Development Environment Component Package (This is for the sole purpose of using other IDE's.):
http://na.blackberry.com/eng/develop...nloads/jde.jsp

Tips and Tricks for using other IDE's for Blackberry development (This gives links to other sources):
http://www.blackberry.com/developers...newspage2.html

I looked of these things and they seem to be pretty reasonable and self explanatory. All the information you need to know how to develop for the blackberry on another IDE besides there is provide on their site. They make it pretty easy.

[jan.g]

Hi,

I'm using Eclipse and I found this forumthread very useful: Disclaimer
I didn't actually made the HelloWorld example work, but its the certainly the right direction.

[PeterK]

Originally Posted by jan.g

Hi,

I'm using Eclipse and I found this forumthread very useful: Disclaimer
I didn't actually made the HelloWorld example work, but its the certainly the right direction.

I just "ported" my project into Eclipse following these steps (less the silly HelloWorld-related steps) and it worked almost fine. The only problem I am having is a reference to some class indirectly (see above).
Eclipse builds a .COD file for me.
Check Taras' page for the RAPC Ant task latest version though (as of today it's 1.8)

[bemshaswing]

I use Eclipse as the coding IDE and the jde as the build environment. That way I can take advantage of the memory manager, breakpoint debugging and so forth. They just share the same "workspace".

[koedur]

Has anybody figured out a way of dealing with blackberry projects and String internationalization?

[yong9900]

Hi,

I follow the description to setup eclipse in the developer guide book volume 1.

Now I have two problems:

1. in eclipse, for any class extends MainScreen, I got following error:
"the type net.rim.tid.awt.event.InputMethodEvent cannot be resolved. It's indirectly referenced from required .class files". I then checked the rim jar file, it only contains InputMethodListener class. When I open this file, I can see InputMethodEvent get metioned. Anyone has the same problem?

2. everything is ok, until when I start the remote debug, I can see the rim debug server JDWP start the simulator, but when I reach any breakpoint, the thread in eclipse get terminated automatically (and the simulator screen get closed). I can't figure out the reason. All my setup following the "Using the Eclipse development environment" in volume one. Any hint?

Thanks a lot!!

[bemshaswing]

I've seen "the type net.rim.tid.awt.event.InputMethodEvent cannot be resolved. It's indirectly referenced from required .class files" before. dunno why this happens but if I create that package in my workspace and put in that class I've been able to get around it.

[simon.hain]

Originally Posted by bemshaswing

I've seen "the type net.rim.tid.awt.event.InputMethodEvent cannot be resolved. It's indirectly referenced from required .class files" before. dunno why this happens but if I create that package in my workspace and put in that class I've been able to get around it.

try switching your java compiler settings to 1.4