hervalicio.us > JavaME development on OS X: things to remember

So, after buying a nice and shiny expensive Mac computer that will help a lot on your day-to-day developer life (OSX is better than anything… at least that’s what they say) you just find out that there is NO JavaME development toolkit made to run on the beloved fruity OS.
Fear not: it is still possible to install and use WTK on OS X (after all it’s just a Unix flavour like any other…) - the only thing you’ll miss is the emulator (in which case you will have to resort in a parallels/crossover/bootcamp Windows emulation).
This nice tutorial covers all the needed workarounds in details: the steps are simple (although not so obvious) - in short, all you need is to download and install the Linux version of WTK somewhere, then get a project called PhoneME (some sort of open source implementation of the J2ME specification explained in a way nobody can understand what it really is) and grab only *one* binary file from it (the preverify one).
So much for a simple JDK…

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