Is there a Motorola's MidWay replacement for Linux or in plain Java?

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Pawel Kraszewski - 21 Sep 2005 19:01 GMT

Hello!

I own a Motorola E398 phone. I use Sun's Java ME toolkit to develop some
apps for it. Poor me, the software to actually upload midlets to the phone
(MidWay) is a Windows application - an OS which I don't use nor like.

As the MidWay application uses plain serial port to upload (well, actally an
USB link, but for MidWay it is virtualized as COM), there shouldn't be a
problem to convert it to Linux (or even better - Java). Did anyone see
implementation like that?

I'd like to have the whole application life-cycle running on a free software
platforms (as Linux for platform, NetBeans plus J2ME for development, etc)
- last thing I miss is the ability to actually stick the midlet into the
phone.

Best regards,

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Roedy Green - 21 Sep 2005 22:20 GMT

>I'd like to have the whole application life-cycle running on a free software
>platforms (as Linux for platform, NetBeans plus J2ME for development, etc)
>- last thing I miss is the ability to actually stick the midlet into the
>phone.

http://java.sun.com/products/sjwtoolkit/download-2_3.html
the wireless toolkit, which I think you are referring to, is pretty
clear that it requires Windows XP. It does not even work on other
Windows variants.

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Pawel Kraszewski - 21 Sep 2005 22:37 GMT

>>I'd like to have the whole application life-cycle running on a free
>>software platforms (as Linux for platform, NetBeans plus J2ME for
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> clear that it requires Windows XP. It does not even work on other
> Windows variants.

Good point! But this is 2.3 BETA. For 2.2 you get:

System Requirements - Software
Microsoft Windows XP or (unsupported) Linux-x86
JavaTM 2 SDK, Standard Edition (J2SE SDK), version 1.4.2 - if you plan to do
actual development, or JavaTM 2, Standard Edition Runtime Environment
(JRE), version 1.4.2 - if you only plan to run the demonstration
applications.
To download the SDK or JRE you want, go to
http://java.sun.com/j2se/downloads.html

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AlecB - 24 Sep 2005 20:37 GMT

> Hello!
>
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>
> Best regards,

I trust that is a developer enable device, if not MIDway won't help.

Alec.

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Pawel Kraszewski - 25 Sep 2005 18:29 GMT

> I trust that is a developer enable device, if not MIDway won't help.

The device is re-programmed to have Midlet upload menu. I did upload midlets
to my phone from Windows, but this requires me to seek for a free windows
machine :) I need to upload midlet straight from Linux.

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Is there a Motorola's MidWay replacement for Linux or in plain Java?

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