Re: J2ME Development Tools

AlecB wrote:

Martin Brehovsky wrote:

For J2ME development the best tool around is NetBeans Mobility Pack - no other tool gives you so much power (for example mentioned eclipseme is a joke compared to netbeans mobility pack).

You can get more information from <http://www.netbeans.org/kb/41/mobility.html>

-mx

Walter via JavaKB.com wrote:

Hi all

I have found this forum about Java and as I have seen, it is very active and
useful in order to solve Java problems or doubts. The fact is that I am going to use J2ME and I have to decide what the best
development tool is, I have read different articles and there's an extensive
list of tools: Sun J2ME Wireless Toolkit, Sun One Studio 4 Mobile Edition,
Netbeans, Eclipse, etc.
I have some good references about Eclipse but maybe there are better tools.
What do you think? Are you happy with Eclipse? Are there some important
advices about its usage? I need some information about it because I must take
a decision and it's important to begin in the right way, I hope you convince
me to use it and forget the other options (Netbeans, Sun J2ME Wireless
Toolkit,etc).
Moreover, I would be very grateful if you could say to me if there are other
interesting forums about J2ME and Eclipse.
Thank you very much for your cooperation and help.


Please ellaborate, I use EclipseME on a daily basis, why should I migrate to netbeans?


Because with EclipseME you get just basic functionality for compiling and running the J2ME/MIDP projects. On the other hand, in NetBeans mobility you automatically get:
- integrated commenting preprocessor with code highlighting (so you can have several versions of your code, e.g. one for Nokia, other for Motorola, etc ...)
- ant based project environment (just take you ant build scripts and build the projects on a machine which never saw the IDE)
- integrated WTK 2.1
- many MIDP examples
- integrated ProGuard obfuscator
- visual designer for visual development of applications (not just UI, but also flow between the screens)
- wireless connection wizard to easily connect MIDP application to servers and web services
- automatic deployment of the built apps to servers via copy/scp/ftp/webdav
- and many, many more

Actually there is a review available on devx.com site - see <http://www.devx.com/wireless/Article/28559/0/page/1>

On the other hand - what features are available in EclipseME and does not exists in NetBeans Mobility Pack? (I'm really wondering, because I don't know any, but may be I'm wrong ...)

I personally use Eclipse for general Java development and NetBeans + Mobility Pack for my J2ME/JSP/Servlets projects ...

-mx
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