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[karligula]

Hi everyone,

I'm continuing my quest to start mobile phone development, but I'm having trouble installing the motorola sdk... I've downloaded and installed the java2 standard edition SDK (finally (all 125mb of it (on a dial up modem))), that all works, I've written a little helloworld program and it runs perfectly. So the runtime must be there somewhere. But when I try to install the motorola sdk it says there's no java runtime environment installed... I thought this would be installed with the java2 sdk... do I need to download and install the runtime separately? Won't this mean there are two runtimes installed?

Anyway I'm currently downloading the runtime to install on its own but I thought I'd ask to see if anyone had experienced the same problems.

Thanks in advance!

[monjardin]

Don't you have to install the Java 2 Micro Edition (J2ME) seperately? You probably should have grabbed the J2ME from Sun instead of the J2SE. :(
I believe the Motorolla SDK is just for emulating the device on your PC.

[karligula]

You might be right... I downloaded the J2ME SDK from motorcoder and assumed that would have everything I needed, then when I tried installing it it said I needed the J2SE SDK, so I just downloaded that, never occured to me I might be able to get J2ME from sun!

Anyway I've downloaded the Java runtime environment and now it works alright. Although the netbeans IDE seems to be very odd. And Java itself, having never used it and coming from csharp, seems to be all over the place! Still I expect I'll get used to it.

I'm quite pleased with myself tonight, I've got my very own little analogue clock application running on the Motorola emulator... I think that's quite good going for a weekend's work with a brand new SDK and platform...