Tuesday, September 30, 2003

Antenna is a set of custom ant tasks that compile, pre-verify, and package a J2ME application. It can also invoke an emulator in which to run your J2ME application. Therefore, with a double-click of an ant task in an IntelliJ window, you can do the entire build cycle and bring up a cell phone emulator with your application running in it. Nokia has a very good pdf file (Using Ant and Antenna MIDP v1.0) describing the use of antenna. This document has a more complete example than the docs from antenna and will help you get successfully started with antenna. The KToolBar from Sun and Nokia’s equivalent environment are fine for playing around with; but if you want to develop in a serious and unencumbered IntelliJ/Ant fashion, then you need ant tasks as opposed to endlessly clicking around in GUI tools. Nokia appears to be very serious about wooing Java developers. Registering with them to download their developer kits was hassle free. There are a lot of good documents to help J2ME developers. Here is an RSS feed of their top 10 Java developer downloads. They also have several different emulators available for download. 7:07:54 PM

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