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20080625 Wednesday June 25, 2008

NetBeans and BlackBerry Development

One of the many people I met at the NetBeans booth in Manila last week was Nestor Fernandez:

Nestor is interested in using NetBeans for BlackBerry development. Can someone tell him what he should do to get started?

One thing is to google for answers. I found several articles and blog entries, including these:

However, there doesn't seem to be a BlackBerry plugin for NetBeans IDE 6.x. At least, that's the way it seems to be from my googling. Can someone clarify on this point and give Nestor some place to start with NetBeans and BlackBerry development?

And thanks for sending the pic, Nestor!

Jun 25 2008, 12:37:58 AM PDT Permalink

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I don't know much about NetBeans, but there is a development environment based on Eclipse:

http://na.blackberry.com/eng/developers/downloads/EclipsePlugIn.jsp

Posted by Wayne Beaton on June 25, 2008 at 07:22 AM PDT #

afaik there is no direct support for Blackberry development in latest NetBeans Mobility now.

There used to be a plugin that allowed you to add the Blackberry emulator to Netbeans Mobility and then develop an application for it. It was a little bit more comfortable approach then the Custom emulator one described at http://www.netbeans.org/kb/55/blackberry.html

Unfortunately this plugin is not maintained anymore.
http://mobility.netbeans.org/source/browse/mobility/plugins/blackberry/
The plugin sources are in netbeans repository and we will be happy if anybody will fix/modify it to work in current releases.

Please, be aware that the NetBeans Mobility is designed for Java ME CLDC/CDC development. The blackberry use different packaging, etc.

Posted by Lukas on June 25, 2008 at 07:35 AM PDT #

The current source code would be at: http://hg.netbeans.org/main/contrib/file/tip/mobility.plugins.blackberry/

Posted by Jesse Glick on June 25, 2008 at 09:22 AM PDT #

Thanks

Posted by roro44 on July 14, 2008 at 10:58 PM PDT #

Here's a new plugin for BlackBerry:

http://plugins.netbeans.org/PluginPortal/faces/PluginDetailPage.jsp?pluginid=11194

And here's the related blog:

http://blogs.sun.com/wind/entry/rim_blackberry_plugin_for_netbeans

Posted by Geertjan on July 19, 2008 at 07:24 AM PDT #

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