Develop mobile apps with Personal Information Management

Level: Intermediate

Anderson Fraga (anderson_fraga@ca.ibm.com), Software Engineer, IBM

18 Jul 2006

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This tutorial takes you through the steps required to successfully build a Personal Information Management (PIM) Mobile Information Device Profile 2.0 (MIDP 2.0) application using well-known products, such as Eclipse, the J9 Java™ Virtual Machine, and the JSR-75 PIM implementation.

In this tutorial

• Installation and configuration
  
  
• The PIM Optional Package API
  
  
• Develop a PIM MIDlet application
  
  
• Deploy and run on a Windows Mobile device
  

Prerequisites

• Eclipse SDK: You can download Eclipse from the Eclipse Foundation Web site (latest version at time of writing is 3.1.2).
• J9 MIDP 2.0 Runtime for Windows Mobile 5.0: Download evaluation versions from WebSphere Everyplace Micro Environment Trial and Evaluation Runtimes (latest version at time of writing is 6.1).
• J9 MIDP 2.0 libraries for Windows: Find instructions on how to download and install in the Installation and Configuration section.
• J9 PIM Optional Package Libraries: Find instructions on how to download and install in the Installation and Configuration section.
• J9 Launcher plug-in for Eclipse: Find instructions on how to download and install in the Installation and Configuration section.

System requirements

None

Duration

2 hours

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