Downloading the J2ME Wireless Toolkit
Now that you know your way around the J2ME landscape, let’s get started with J2ME. However, before we can compile and run any J2ME programs, we need to download and install the J2ME Wireless Toolkit. You can obtain the J2ME Wireless Toolkit at the following URL: http://java.sun.com/products/j2mewtoolkit.
The version that we use in this book is 1.0.3 beta. It is available for the Microsoft Windows 98/ME and 2000 platforms, as well as Linux and Sun Solaris operating systems. The toolkit requires the presence of at least Version 1.3 of the Java Development Kit (JDK) for the host operating environment.
Once you’ve downloaded the Wireless Toolkit, double-click on it or execute the resulting binary (depending on your platform) to activate the extraction. This will uncompress the files needed to install the Wireless Toolkit. Note that you may be directed to specify an existing JDK installation on your system. If so, choose the latest stable release of the JDK that you currently have on your system.[4] In addition, the distribution may also ask you if you would like to install a version of the toolkit that interfaces with Forte™ for Java. If you would like to develop your J2ME applications in the Forte for Java Integrated Development Environment, choose the corresponding option. Be sure that Forte is already installed on your system before doing so.
In this case, we’re going to install the Java Wireless Toolkit on a Windows platform into the directory ...
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