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BlackBerry Java Application Development

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BlackBerry Java Application Development

Overview of this book

BlackBerry Smartphone was once the domain of jet-setting business users with power suits. Now you can hardly go anywhere without seeing someone using a BlackBerry to check their messages or make a call. It's this kind of explosive growth that makes the BlackBerry ecosystem a great place to develop and market applications through the BlackBerry App World store—this book shows you how to do just that! This step-by-step guide gives you a hands-on experience of developing innovative Java applications for your BlackBerry. With the help of this book, you will learn to build your own applications to illustrate the platform, and the various capabilities that developers can use in their programs. It explores the powers of Blackberry and helps you develop professional and impressive Java applications. The book teaches how to write rich, interactive, and smart BlackBerry applications in Java. It expects the readers to know Java but not Java Mobile or the BlackBerry APIs. We will learn to build rich, interactive, and smart Java applications for the BlackBerry. The book will cover UI programming, data storage, programming network, and internet API apps. As we move on, we will learn more about the BlackBerry's device features, such as messaging, GPS, multimedia, contacts and calendar, and so on.This book also helps you build your own applications to illustrate the platform, and the various capabilities that developers can use in their programs.
Table of Contents (18 chapters)
BlackBerry Java Application Development
Credits
About the Author
Acknowledgement
About the Reviewers
Preface

Introducing Eclipse perspectives


Eclipse uses the term perspective to mean a saved configuration of views and their placement on the workbench. So far, you've seen only the "Java" perspective that is used when developing applications. This perspective contains things such as a task list, console output, and documentation views, but there is another important perspective that we will encounter next—the Debug perspective.

The views in the Java perspective aren't particularly useful when you are debugging an application, so they are hidden and an all new set of windows is displayed once you switch to the Debug perspective. These views include the call stack, variables, and watch windows that are more useful when trying to look at the current state of the running application. Let's take a look at that right now by going back to the simulator and finding that bug we made.