Setting Up For BlackBerry Development: How to Add Simulators to the BB JDE

I was setting up my machine to start toying around with some BlackBerry development and soon I hit a problem. I didn’t know how to add additional simulators. Let me explain.

First I went over to the BlackBerry Developer’s page and downloaded a copy of the BB JDE(290MB). It might help for you to read up on some of the documentation to understand what their architecture and stuff is like.

Anyway, after I installed the JDE(which is based on Eclipse), I realised that there was simulator for the Bold 9000.  So from here, I went on to the Simulator Downloads page to get a copy of the simulator I wanted.

Installing it was easy. Hooking it up to Eclipse was not because I didn’t where to make the changes to make the 9000 Simulator appear as one of the simulators to use when you run your app. Eventually I found this site that had the solution.

Basically what you do is:-

1. Open the file “SimPackage-JDE.rc” which should be found in your eclipse simulator folder. It should be in <JDEInstallDirectory>\plugins\net.rim.eide.componentpack4.5.0_4.5.0.16\components\simulator

2. Append two entries

SimulatorCommand9000-JDE = <Sim_install_dir>\fledge.exe /app=Jvm.dll /handheld=9000 /session=9000 /app-param=DisableRegistration /app-param=JvmAlxConfigFile:9000.xml /data-port=0×4d44 /data-port=0×4d4e /pin=0×2100000A

SimulatorDirectory9000-JDE= <Sim_install_dir>

Take note that <Sim_install_dir> should be replaced with the actual path to where you installed the 9000 Bold simulator.

Once that’s done, everything should work seamlessly and the simulator should now appear in the list.

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