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Monday, May 21, 2007
Video about Mobility Pack in NetBeans 6.0
The video at Java ME and the Netbeans Mobility Pack shows the new features in Mobility Pack for NetBeans 6.0, currently available in a preview verson that can be downloaded by anyone.
Visual Composer for CLDC (previously called Visual Mobile Designer) is said to be only useful for consumers. I doubt that many consumers make MIDlets, even for their own phone, but there are a lot of corporate developers that could use this tool effectively to speed up development, and to simplify early user evaluation by creating visual mockups of the real thing. It's not of much help for Canvas-based applications, but can be used if you combine high-level widgets with a Canvas-based main screen. That's how I use it right now to make a client for an LBS.
It's also said that there's a need to build hundreds of different versions of each application to support all phones. I doubt very much that's true even for advanced games, but even so, the porting features of NetBeans Mobility Pack are appreciated.
I'm watching the video right now (it's almost an hour), so I might add more later.
Visual Composer for CLDC (previously called Visual Mobile Designer) is said to be only useful for consumers. I doubt that many consumers make MIDlets, even for their own phone, but there are a lot of corporate developers that could use this tool effectively to speed up development, and to simplify early user evaluation by creating visual mockups of the real thing. It's not of much help for Canvas-based applications, but can be used if you combine high-level widgets with a Canvas-based main screen. That's how I use it right now to make a client for an LBS.
It's also said that there's a need to build hundreds of different versions of each application to support all phones. I doubt very much that's true even for advanced games, but even so, the porting features of NetBeans Mobility Pack are appreciated.
I'm watching the video right now (it's almost an hour), so I might add more later.
