Chapter 3. Setting Up the Development Environment
In this chapter we will walk through the steps involved in setting up the development environment for development of PDA applications using Java. The tools we will use in the book's examples are available for little or no cost. In the following chapters we will not be using any of the commercial IDEs. There are several reasons for this:
Learning software development on a new platform is better at the lowest possible level. If you use a fancy IDE, often the tools will hide the lower level detail and you will not know how things work. You can always move to an IDE later, once you understand the underlying mechanics of building software for the new platform. It is often possible to do things that are not always possible to do with a higher-level tool or an IDE. The objective of this book is to show how anyone can develop Java applications for PDAs. Expensive tools are not required.
The tools we use in the following chapters are:
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