Wednesday, July 22, 2009

Create the Environment for BlackBerry development

Before starting HelloWorld we need to create the environment for BlackBerry development.

Blackberry applications can be developed using Blackberry JDE, Eclipse Plugin, Netbeans plugin and Visual Studio Plugin.

I use Blackberry JDE for my development. I prefer this because this is provided by the RIM.


We have to follow the following steps for making our PC to start HelloWorld using BB JDE.

1. Before staring it is very important to choose the JDE. Have a look at this KnowledgeBase article.

2. For example you chosen JDE 4.6.0.
You can download any other version from here.

3. Now Install the "BlackBerry_JDE_4.6.0.exe" that you downloaded

4. Install any latest JDK (ex: jdk-6u5-windows-i586-p.exe)

5. Update your environment variable.
Control Panel -> System -> Environment variables -> click path in the system variables ->
Edit. Now add the following in Variable value ; each with a semicolon in the end
a) C:\Program Files\Java\jdk1.6.0_05\bin

b) C:\Program Files\Java\jre1.6.0_05\bin

c) C:\Program Files\Research In Motion\BlackBerry JDE 4.6.0\bin

6. Restart your PC or simply the logoff will do.

Now we are ready to start HelloWorld in Blackberry :)




6 comments:

  1. For setting the System variable PC logoff will enough.

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  2. Thanks for the comment.
    I am updating this information.

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  3. Hi all,

    Really amazing blog post. I saw and read your blog,This site is useful to Blackberry Developers. I know that it will help me in my own stuffs. I think it may be relevant.

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    Blackberry development

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  5. i developed an application which for BB which was consuming this webservice and everything seemed to work fine ( ie even session seemed to work) while i used to run the application from the JDE device simulator.



    but once i ported the same on the device, the BB app was not able to maintain the session from device

    Please help if anybody got solution....

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  6. Hello Friends,

    I am new to this blog.. Can anyone tell me how to resize all fields and background image based on all blackberry screen resolution...

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