Flavio Ishii » BlackBerry Widgets http://www.flavioishii.com "Live as if you were to die tomorrow. Learn as if you were to live forever.” Mahatma Gandhi Tue, 29 Mar 2011 03:37:39 +0000 en hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.2.1 Setting up the BlackBerry RIM Development Tools http://www.flavioishii.com/2009/09/setting-up-the-blackberry-rim-development-tools/ http://www.flavioishii.com/2009/09/setting-up-the-blackberry-rim-development-tools/#comments Sat, 12 Sep 2009 15:39:37 +0000 flavio http://www.flavioishii.com/?p=87 Some development platforms lack documentation, others have an overwhelming amount of documentation to sift through. Though I’m not complaining, BlackBerryRIM falls in that latter case so I’m sharing this quick “setup” guide in as few lines as possible for a Mac/Windows environment (sort of, I used Parallels because of the lack in Mac support right now).

UPDATE: The BB site changed since this post. If you want to do pure BB J2ME apps follow steps 1 & 2 then download the full installer here: to http://na.blackberry.com/eng/developers/javaappdev/javaeclipseplug.jsp Otherwise, I recommend BlackBerry Widgets for OS 5.

For BB MDS Development, Download & Install:

  1. JDK 6
  2. All BB JDE‘s, that’s right, all of them, it‘ll take a while but might as well get it all done with – http://na.blackberry.com/eng/developers/javaappdev/javadevenv.jsp Well, Ok, if you know the specific devices you’re developing for then pick accordingly. The way to match device to jde version is via the device OS version; device OS =< JDE version. Or you can trust the table on this thread http://supportforums.blackberry.com/rim/board/message?board.id=java_dev&thread.id=13264&page=3
  3. Eclipse for Java 3.4 (3.4.1 & up should include the MDS Studio)
  4. BB Web Development Plug-in for eclipse - http://na.blackberry.com/eng/developers/browserdev/eclipse.jsp
  5. All BB JDE Component Packages (this isn‘t dejavu of step 2, note these are the “Component Packages”, just scroll down a bit). – http://na.blackberry.com/eng/developers/javaappdev/javadevenv.jsp
  6. BB Web Development Plug-in for eclipse – http://na.blackberry.com/eng/developers/browserdev/eclipse.jsp

After installing Eclipse you’ll need to install the downloaded plug-ins. Open Eclipse -> Help -> Software Updates -> Available Software -> Add Site... -> Archive -> Browse to the downloaded zip file and Open.
Do this for each then check off the plug-in boxes and click Install.

Tip: You can also add the update site for the BB Plug-ins eclipse by adding this site - http://www.blackberry.com/go/eclipseUpdate Alternatively, you could have used this site to get all the plug-in components but I wasted some time with it due to lost connections. Better to use this method for update purposes only.

After installing everything open a Workbench for BB, create a BB project, and start coding.

There are three development approaches in the BB RIM platform: Web Development, Rapid Application Development with MDS, and Java Application Development. I recommend this hello world example for a Java app to get your feet wet.

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