Apr
13
2006
45

J2ME Development on NetBeans 5.0 in Mac OS X

For a long time Mac OS X was the one platform left out when it comes to developing MIDlets. There where soultions from SUN for Windows, Linux & obviously Solaris. There was no official build for the amazing NetBeans Mobility Pack for the Mac … well, there still isn’t one but I looked around a bit in the gathered knowledge of mankind which is the WWW and found the blog of Lukas Hasik. He has a fairly well written documentation of how to achieve a working development environment on Mac OS X.

In this post I’d like to summarize the nessecary steps as well as make a few annotations where I ran into difficulties while following the described steps.

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Written by Florian Beer in: development, mac
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Feb
15
2006
2

GPS::Tron

Take a look (and maybe even contribute) at a project of some of my colleagues at uni. It is called GPS::Tron and is an adaption of the well known computer game Tron in a sort of augmented reality context.

GPS::Tron is a Java J2ME Application which uses a cellphone’s GPS transceiver to locate the device. Read more about how it works and what it is on their homepage.

Written by Florian Beer in: development
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