J2ME on FreeBSD?

[Markus Svensson]

Hi,

Is there any difference between the Nokia and Sun's SDK (both regarding
usage and how well they work on FreeBSD)?

Do they run on the native JDK, or is a Linux JDK required?

Best Regards,
Markus Svensson

> -----Original Message-----
> From: Panagiotis Astithas [mailto:past at noc.ntua.gr]
> Sent: Tuesday, November 11, 2003 6:35 PM
> To: Markus Svensson; freebsd-java at freebsd.org
> Subject: Re: J2ME on FreeBSD?
> 
> On Tuesday 11 November 2003 19:08, Markus Svensson wrote:
> > Hello all!
> >
> > I'm currently in the process of writing my Bachelor's Thesis. It's
> > supposed to become a Java game for cell phones.
> >
> > So, my question is, is it possible to build and test J2ME software
on
> > FreeBSD?
> 
> Build, sure. Test, maybe.
> 
> I build midlets using ant & Sun J2ME Wireless Toolkit 2.0 for Linux (I
> intended to make a port out of it, but I haven't found the time, yet).
> What
> you actually need is the archive that contains the MIDP classes and
the
> preverifier, a linux binary that works under the linux emulation layer
> (actually the only linux binary in the toolkit that works). You can
use
> the
> Nokia Developer's kit as well.
> 
> For testing you need to be able to run the emulators, but I haven't
had
> any
> success yet.
> 
> Cheers,
> --
> Panagiotis Astithas
> Electrical & Computer Engineer, PhD
> Network Management Center
> National Technical University of Athens, Greece