Re: JavaME on Debian?

[manfred@mosabuam.com]

Quoting David Herron <David.Herron@Sun.COM>:

> W. Borgert wrote:
> > Quoting Michael Koch <konqueror@gmx.de>:
> >
> > > Its possible. I do a lot of J2ME development at work on Debian.
> > > But there are no Debian packages for this, as all you need is not really
> > > redistributable. Like SUN WTK Emulator. And All other emulators are not
> > > available under Linux. (I know there is some old outdated emulator from
> > > Nokia for Linux)
> >
> > Thanks! It looks like the "Sun Java Wireless Toolkit 2.5 for CLDC"
> > is only available as .exe for Windows. Not even Suns very own OSes
> > are supported, or do I miss sth.?
> >
> > I hope, Sun will release those things at least in a way, that
> > Debian can distribute it in non-free (better main, of course).
> >
> > Cheers, WB
>
> Have you browsed through the PhoneME project to see whether any of it
> is open source?
>
>    https://phoneme.dev.java.net/
>    http://www.mobileandembedded.org/
>
>
> I don't know why we only release the WTK for Windows.  It may have to
> do with the device emulators that are included...??

Hm. I have not checked this out by as far as I know Netbeans comes  
with a Mobile Pack that includes all you need (including emulators). I  
have seen a demo of this on a Java Developer Day in Vancouver and as  
far as I recall it was running on Linux.

manfred