Guide : NetBeans Java ME CDC Development Quick Start Guide

Introduction:
Connected Device Configuration (CDC) applications are designed to run on mobile and embedded devices with at least 2MB of memory. This configuration supports a more feature-rich JVM than MIDP-based mobile phones, which typically have much less memory and use the Connected Limited Device Configuration (CLDC). This tutorial shows you how to use NetBeans IDE to create a Java Platform, Micro Edition (Java ME platform) CDC application. We show you how to create a Java ME CDC project that displays a simple form in a device emulator for the three available CDC profiles. This document is designed to get you creating applications as quickly as possible.

Contents

• Requirements

• Adding Emulator Platforms

• Creating a CDC Application with AGUI Profile

• Creating a CDC Application with Personal Profile

• Creating a CDC Application with Foundation Profile

• See Also

Requirements
To complete this tutorial, you need the following software and resources:

Software or Resource with Version Required

NetBeans IDE with Java ME Version 6.5 or version 6.1

Java Development Kit (JDK) Version 6 or version 5

Sun Java Toolkit for CDC Version 1.0

Adding Emulator Platforms

Supported CDC Profiles
In order to develop applications for CDC devices, you must install and register a CDC emulator platform in the IDE. Note that CDC emulator platforms support different development profiles. The three main development profiles and the emulators that support them are:

• AGUI (Sun Java Toolkit for CDC) supports advanced graphical layouts. (more info)

• Personal Profile (Nokia, Sony Ericsson) is the most popular profile for smartphone development. (more info)

• Foundation Profile (Ricoh) is used in consumer and embedded devices with limited resources and non-standard GUIs. (more info)

Available Platforms
Instructions for adding the following supported emulator platforms are listed in the NetBeans CDC Platform Emulator Setup Guide.

• Sun Java Toolkit for CDC 1.0

• Ricoh Embedded Software Architecture Emulator 1.14c

• Sony Ericsson CDC Platform UIQ SDK 3

• Sony Ericsson M600 and P990 devices

• Nokia Series 80 Platform SDK for Symbian OS, Java and Personal Profile

• NSIcom CrEme VM for Windows CE

In the following sections we create a CDC project using each available profile and also use the IDE's GUI builder in the Personal and AGUI profile applications to enhance the User Inerface...

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