2005-10-09 #1

major upgrade at home

At work, my development tasks have been reduced a lot. So I am not up to using Java 5 and also our work environment is bound to JDK 1.4. Today (free time) I decided to install some new software on my pc at home.

Despite of never change a running system, I gave it a try. It started with a note in the http://forum.nokia.com , where I saw, that an updated version of the Nokia Developer's Suite is available (3.0.1, while I stuck with 2.2). I had problems with 2.2 forcing me to use my laptop machine for developing midlets. On my pc, the emulator won't run smooth and debugging was also not possible, not speaking of bluetooth emulation.

the journey starts
So Downloading about 100megs of Nokia software (the version before was only half the size). After a look into the zip and the attached pdfs, I got to know, that I need to update also the Nokia PC Suite to have all options available. They added the PC Suite 6.5 to the package - that was the reason, it was so big...

first awakening
...But, PC Suite 6.6 is already available - so another bunch of megs later, I could install it. The Nokia site was telling, I will not need an uninstall of the previous version, but the software setup did that on its own (gracefully).

second awakening
I also noticed, that the old Nokia Developer's Suite cannot coexists with the new one. I uninstalled it and of course the eclipse plugin attached to it. So, while I was here already, I decided to go for the latest eclipse too.

more to come
… about 100 MB later, eclipse 3.1 setup was fine. Of course I needed to reenter my CVS Repo and the subversion connection from snipsnap. I failed to connect to the jawin CVS at sourceforge (don't know why). I installed JadClipse and finally run the setup of the Nokia Developer's Suite. Puh.

testing

• phone bluetooth connection working
• bluetooth connected PC Suite does not interfere with an additional bluetooth connection (very good!). MobileControl is still running.
• eclipse is working fine
• CVS ok
• subversion ok
• JadClipse ok
• I loaded some midlets into the new eclipse workspace. Of course it was not that easy. I had to patch the .classpath and the .project file to have it recognize the new Emulators (Nokia used the <comment> tag in the .project to identify its projects)
• Nokia Midlet Emulators work! Still slow, but ok.
• Debugging of Midlet works, too!

passed time
So all my nice freetime was spent on this major update. I will not go to work tomorrow and probably manage a game of Dungeon Siege 2, what is feeling a little more 'productive' than this whole update session.

But at least I am now back in business :-)