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RIM Announces JDE Plug-in for Eclipse Developers

by James Falconer on 18 Mar 2008 11:14 AM
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RIM Announces JDE Plug-in for Eclipse DevelopersOf interest to BlackBerry developers... RIM today announced a BlackBerry Java Development Environment (JDE) plug-in for Eclipse - a new development tool that enables Eclipse developers to create and test robust wireless applications for the BlackBerry platform seamlessly from within the familiar Eclipse Integrated Development Environment (IDE). The plug-in will enable Eclipse developers to create powerful mobile applications for BlackBerry users while maintaining a familiar Eclipse development environment.

A direct quote via the press release from RIM:

“RIM values the Eclipse development community and recognizes the need for integrated tools that support the development of BlackBerry applications from within the Eclipse environment,” said David Yach, CTO for Software, Research In Motion. “The introduction of the BlackBerry JDE Plug-in for Eclipse builds on RIM’s robust offering of development tools to further enhance and simplify mobile application development for the BlackBerry platform.”

A beta version of the JDE plug-in is available as a free download at:
www.blackberry.com/go/eclipse.

Developers, be sure to let us know what you think of the new JDE! We would love to hear your feedback!

Read the full press release from RIM. 

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Posted by broderboy Tuesday, Mar 18, 2008 1427 days ago

Finally!! I've been waiting for this. The original IDE was a pain to get to run under Linux

 
 
Posted by BerryRob Wednesday, Mar 19, 2008 1426 days ago

First the installer wants to update my eclipse from 3.1.3 to 3.1.2 - I would call that a downgrade. While installing really unpacks eclipse 3.1.2 which seems to be part of the installer package - ok that is the reason why the installer has more than 200 MB...
After plugin installation my eclipse installation contains a lot of old junk and two new features:

Blackberry JDE Plug-in for Eclipse 1.0.0.22
Component Pack 4.3.0 Feature 4.3.0.8

Therefore I recomment installing the "JDE plugin" i a new directory and afterwrds copy the necessary plugins into the real eclipse installation.