Amazing: Sun's NetBeans Mobility pack works on my FreeBSD box

Panagiotis Astithas past at ebs.gr
Sun Apr 9 13:46:04 UTC 2006


Andrew Reilly wrote:
> I can't contain my excitement, and thought that there might be
> folk on the list who would care to know this too.  This
> will also commit the recipe to my Sent mail repository, should I
> ever need it again...
> 
> Background: surprising as it may seem, until fairly recently,
> the only way to develop JavaME (micro edition) MIDP applications
> to run on, say, smart phones, was to use a Windows box.

Actually there has been java/sun-wtk for quite some time now and coupled 
with java/eclipseme it could be used to develop midlets easily with 
eclipse. It is definitely cool that Netbeans has a working solution, too.

Cheers,

Panagiotis


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