You'll have to forgive my ignorance, but as I've said, I'm new to JAVA.
I've been trying for sometime to successfully build DFM from Eclipse or Netbeans and have nothing to show for it except a large bruise on my forehead from banging it against the desk.
I'm well versed in SVN, I have no problem downloading the tree. I've tried importing the build.xml into eclipse and it basically takes a giant shit all over it. I've tried creating a project and importing the folders to no avail. It never manages to find all the classes. I also cannot for the life of me figure out how to get Eclipse to find the ME base classes. Today, I was finally fed up with eclipse and decided to give netbeans a whirl. No love there either. It keeps wanting to try to build the thing using my native JDK instead of ME.
Perhaps what I'm after doesn't exist. I've done quite a bit of mobile device development using C# and visual studio. In there, it's a simple matter of creating a project, choosing a device class and bam! you're ready to go. The emulator works, debugging works, and if you hook up the actual device you can deploy debug builds directly.
I'm hoping to figure out some sort of similar arrangement to work on this, but none of the tools I've using seem to be able to even build the damned thing, let alone provide an easy mechanism for testing.
My questions are the following:
1. "I myself use Eclipse" What exactly do you use it for? Are you just using it as a glorified text editor and then building from a console? Do you debug and test directly? Can you use the emulator from it?
2. If you answer yes to any of the above, can you please check your "project file" into SVN and maybe put up some quick notes about what plugins you have installed and how they're configured?
I appreciate your help. I've avoided posting again since I didn't want to take up your time with what should be trivial things, but I'm just not getting anywhere productive and I want to actually start getting some real work done.
Sean
I've been trying for sometime to successfully build DFM from Eclipse or Netbeans and have nothing to show for it except a large bruise on my forehead from banging it against the desk.
I'm well versed in SVN, I have no problem downloading the tree. I've tried importing the build.xml into eclipse and it basically takes a giant shit all over it. I've tried creating a project and importing the folders to no avail. It never manages to find all the classes. I also cannot for the life of me figure out how to get Eclipse to find the ME base classes. Today, I was finally fed up with eclipse and decided to give netbeans a whirl. No love there either. It keeps wanting to try to build the thing using my native JDK instead of ME.
Perhaps what I'm after doesn't exist. I've done quite a bit of mobile device development using C# and visual studio. In there, it's a simple matter of creating a project, choosing a device class and bam! you're ready to go. The emulator works, debugging works, and if you hook up the actual device you can deploy debug builds directly.
I'm hoping to figure out some sort of similar arrangement to work on this, but none of the tools I've using seem to be able to even build the damned thing, let alone provide an easy mechanism for testing.
My questions are the following:
1. "I myself use Eclipse" What exactly do you use it for? Are you just using it as a glorified text editor and then building from a console? Do you debug and test directly? Can you use the emulator from it?
2. If you answer yes to any of the above, can you please check your "project file" into SVN and maybe put up some quick notes about what plugins you have installed and how they're configured?
I appreciate your help. I've avoided posting again since I didn't want to take up your time with what should be trivial things, but I'm just not getting anywhere productive and I want to actually start getting some real work done.
Sean