Release Notes

J2ME Wireless Toolkit
2.2

October 2004

 

Table of Contents

1. Overview
2. System Requirements
3. Installation Instructions
4. Differences Between Linux and Microsoft Windows Versions of the J2ME Wireless Toolkit
5. Running the Toolkit
6. Running the Toolkit in an IDE
7. Known Bugs
8. Frequently Asked Questions

1. Overview

The J2ME Wireless Toolkit is a set of tools for creating MIDP applications. It consists of three main components:

The J2ME Wireless Toolkit implements impressive capabilities which are exposed through standard APIs. The APIs are defined through the Java Community Process (JCP):

For more information on using the J2ME Wireless Toolkit to develop applications, see the User's Guide.

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2. System Requirements

This section describes the system requirements for running the J2ME Wireless Toolkit.

2.1 Required Software

NOTE: The Linux version of the toolkit is unsupported and has undergone only limited testing on the Red Hat 9.0 distribution.

We plan to release new Linux versions of the toolkit, however, we cannot commit to doing so with the same frequency as, nor simultaneously with, new Microsoft Windows versions. In addition, we cannot commit to making fully supported Linux versions of the toolkit.

2.2 Required Hardware

Minimum hardware requirements are:

3. Installation Instructions

3.1 Windows

Run the installer, j2me_wireless_toolkit-2_2-bin-win.exe. Follow the instructions provided by the installer.

3.2 Linux

To install the toolkit, run the self-extracting installer, j2me_wireless_toolkit-2_2-bin-linuxi386.bin.

To complete installation of the Wireless Toolkit, you must have the J2SE SDK version 1.4.2 installed. If you only want to use the Wireless Toolkit with the J2SE Runtime Environment (JRE), version 1.4.2, you must have the ZIP utility installed.

If you want to install the toolkit into a directory that requires root access, become the root user before running the installer.

4. Differences Between Linux and Microsoft Windows Versions of the J2ME Wireless Toolkit

The Linux version of the J2ME Wireless Toolkit differs from the Microsoft Windows version in the following respects:

The Linux version of the wireless toolkit comes with the same documentation as the Microsoft Windows version. Almost all of the documentation for the Microsoft Windows version can be applied to the Linux version, except that all backslashes ('\') in paths should be treated as forward slashes ('/').

Although all screen shots in the documentation were taken on Microsoft Windows, the items portrayed in the screen shots look nearly identical, if not exactly the same, on the Linux version of the toolkit.

5. Running the Toolkit

5.1 Windows

The installer creates a new program group, J2ME Wireless Toolkit 2.2. This group contains the following aliases:

5.2 Linux

You can run the J2ME Wireless Toolkit from the command line using commands from the directory j2mewtk.dir/bin, where j2mewtk.dir is the toolkit's installation directory.

Command Action
ktoolbar Starts the KToolbar.
defaultdevice Enables you to specify the default emulation device.
prefs Enables you to set the toolkit preferences.
utils Enables you to access the toolkit's utilities.
emulator Enables you to run the emulator from the command line.

6. Running the Toolkit in an IDE

This release of the J2ME Wireless Toolkit can be integrated with Java integrated development environments (IDEs), such as Sun Java Studio Mobility. For information on how to use the J2ME Wireless Toolkit within an IDE, refer to the documentation for the specific IDE.

7. Known Bugs

This is not an exhaustive list of known bugs. It includes those bugs that developers are most likely to encounter in using the toolkit.

Bug ID Description
5060533 Recieved MMS text parts are not displayed in the WMA console.
5010166 Back faces of triangles in TriangleStripArray are incorrectly shaded in some instances.
5073838 The method RemoteDevice.encrypt(false) returns true even though encrypt is in force mode in the Preferences window.

8. Frequently Asked Questions

For answers to common questions, see the FAQ.

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