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No looking left or right, Sun continues with its policy to only support developers, working in the mobile/embedded devices space, if they are on either Windows or Linux. I don't know if this a a severe case of tunnel vision or if they want to teach all those Java coders who have switched over to the Mac a lesson?
There is no WTK (J2ME Wireless Toolkit) available for the Mac and therefore, device manufacturer don't bother creating emulators for the Mac either.
Now Sun, or to be more precise, netBeans.org has released the NetBeans Mobility Pack 4.1.
The NetBeans Mobility Pack 4.1 helps writing, testing, and debugging of applications for Java technology-enabled mobile devices. It integrates support for the Mobile Information Device Profile (MIDP) 2.0, the Connected, Limited Device Configuration (CLDC) 1.1 with the new projects system and improved performance of the NetBeans IDE 4.1 development environment. This release simplifies coding with templates for MIDlet and MIDlet suites, and provides code completion against Java 2 Platform, Micro Edition (J2ME platform) packages. It solves device fragmentation problems by enabling you to edit and compile custom configurations for each device.
However, the NetBeans Mobility Pack 4.1 installers are available for Windows and Linux platforms only.
For the rest of us, left behind by the mighty Sun empire, there still is Michael Powers' Emulator and Midlet-API port for the Mac. Besides that, the only other tool you need is Antenna, which provides a set of (platform independent) Ant tasks suitable for developing wireless Java applications targeted at the Mobile Information Device Profile (MIDP).
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