Developing Java ME on Mac OS X
To install and setup Netbeans on Mac is no problem. Running a J2EE or J2SE application would then be fairly similar to Windows. But running J2ME has a little problem.
To work with mobile application, one can follow the helpful Netbeans + Mobility + Mpowerplayer Guide. However, the guide did not cover how to add optional java package such as jsr75, which I would cover below.
The complete steps to set up a mobile development environment with Netbeans + J2ME Mobility Pack + Visual Designer + Mpowerplayer emulator + optional java package:
- Download Netbeans for Mac OS X.
- Install either the Java SE or Web & Java EE version of the IDE.
- After installation, start the IDE and go to Tools > Plugins.
- Click the Available Plugins tab. Under Category go to Mobility.
- Check the boxes for Visual Mobility Designer, and Mobility and click Install.
- Download the Mpowerplayer SDK and install it.
- In the NetBeans IDE main menu, choose Tools > Java Platform Manager.
- Click Add Platform. Select the folder that contains the MPowerPlayer SDK (mpp-sdk). Click Search to locate the emulator in the folder. When the IDE finds the MPowerPlayer SDK, click Next.
- Click Finish. The IDE registers the MIDP platform. You can now build and run a MIDP 2.0 application. But the setup still lacks optional java packages.
- Download SUN WTK 2.5.2 (for Windows and Linux)
- Unzip the .bin. For example, run the command:
$ unzip sun_java_wireless_toolkit-2_5_2-linux.bin
- Under /lib, copy the optional java package you need eg. jsr75, jsr 179 or even midpapi21.jar. Put them under /Applications/mpp-sdk/stubs/
- In your project, edit project.properties and add to platform.bootclasspath the optional java package. eg.
platform.bootclasspath=${platform.home}/stubs/mmapi.jar:${platform.home}/stubs/midp-2.0.jar:${platform.home}/stubs/cldc-1.0.jar:${platform.home}/stubs/jsr75.jar - Begin mobile development on Mac OS X!
