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MIDP 2.0 on a Mac - so close - so far away
By Wolf Paulus <wolf@wolfpaulus.com>

Posted Tuesday, August 31st, 2004

Did you ever ask yourself why there aren't any really cool MIDP2 applications for your PDA or cell phone?

If you are reading this blog, chances are you have switched to a Mac soon after OS X was released or maybe more recently - if not - you probably wish you had and still look for the right moment. Anyway, our developer friends on Window PCs enjoy developing MIDP 2.0 applications, using Sun's J2ME Wireless Toolkit, which has become the de facto standard toolkit for developing applications for Java 2, Micro Edition (J2ME).

J2ME Wireless Toolkit 2.2 supports:

Developers, working on a Mac have been left behind - way behind. MIDP 1.0.3 is the most recent reference implementation available on OS X.
Fortunately; there is also a little bit of good news. Michael has made a MIDP2 player available for OS X, which can execute Midlets (1.0 and 2.0) on your Mac.
More importantly, when you plug the mPowerplayer.jar file into your IDE, you can now debug a Midlet by simply starting your debugger at com.mpp.player.PowerPlayerApp' main method, passing your own jad or jar as a command-line parameter.
Say good-bye to X11 but don't get too excited though, writing / distributing an MIDP 2.0 midlet is still not possible on a Mac and better don't count on Sun to see this change.

.. so close so far away ..

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Published on: Tuesday, August 31st, 2004  •  Category: [embedded]
Article URL : http://wolfpaulus.com/journal/embedded/midp2mac.html