The following
are prerequisites required for writing and testing applications for the Palm:
- A Palm device or Palm Emulator (you can download POSE from http://www.palmos.com/dev/tools/emulator/)
- A copy of a J2ME virtual machine installed on the Palm, for example the
Sun's K Virtual Machine (KVM) and IBM's J9, available from http://java.sun.com and http://www.embedded.oti.com
- A cradle to synchronize the palm with your PC
- Something to generate .prc files, that is Palm executables, to run on
the Palm, such as Sun's J2ME Wireless Toolkit (available at http://java.sun.com)
and IBM's WSDD, available at http://www.embedded.oti.com,
which includes J9 as standard
- MQe JARs/classes
This documentation concentrates on J9 and WSDD.