Establishment of BlackBerry Java development environment and plug-in installation (1)

RIM provides a variety of development platforms for BlackBerry development. Developers of different platforms can choose development tools they are familiar with to develop BlackBerry applications. This article uses BlackBerry JDE Plug-InforEclipse as an example to describe how to build the BlackBerry development environment.

Eclipse Installation

BlackBerry Eclipse Plug-In is a Plug-In on the Eclipse platform. To install BlackBerry Eclipse Plug-In, you must first install JDK and Eclipse platform. BlackBerry Eclipse Plug-in requires JDK 6-update 10 or later. BlackBerry Eclipse Plug-In requires 3.5-classic or higher for Eclipse. This section uses Eclipse 3.5.2-classic as an example to describe how to install Eclipse.

First install JDK. The official version is http://java.sun.com/javase/downloads/index.jsp. The installation file is the exe execution file. Double-click the installation file.

The official Eclipse website is http://www.eclipse.org/downloads/#there are also many sites to download eclipse'an. Eclipse is an installation-free program. Generally, you only need to decompress the downloaded compressed file.

This document uses the eclipseinstaller eclipse-sdk-3.5.2-win32.zip to extract the file to the folder eclipse-SDK-3.5.2-win3, you can find the eclipse directory in this folder. For ease of use, we copy the eclipse directory to the c: \ blackberry folder. You must create the "c: \ blackberry" folder by yourself, you can also use different folder names based on your preferences and preferences. Now, double-click eclipse.exe under the c: \ blackberry \ eclipsefolder to start Eclipse. At the first startup, Eclipse will prompt you to select the workspace path,

Workspace refers to the workbench. You can select an empty directory as the workbench. projects created later will appear in this workbench directory. This article uses c: \ blackberry \ workspace as the workbench. Therefore, enter c: \ blackberry \ workspace in the dialog box. Eclipse will automatically create this directory and use it as the workbench directory.

The welcome page is displayed after Eclipse is started,

After the welcome page is closed, the standard Java development interface will appear,

Now Eclipse is ready for use. You can start preparing to install BlackBerry Eclipse Plug-In.