J2ME for OS X?

[Unnsse Khan]

I downloaded the J2ME Wireless Toolkit from Sun, onto my G4 PowerBook...

I created a J2ME_HOME system environmental variable in my .bash_profile configuration file. I also added the J2ME_HOME/bin to my PATH.

When I tried typing in "ktoolbar", I got this response on the command line:

 
Last login: Sun Apr 10 21:59:01 on ttyp1
Welcome to Darwin!
Raven:~ untz$ ktoolbar
Exception in thread "main" java.lang.ExceptionInInitializerError
        at com.sun.kvem.environment.Resources.<init>(Unknown Source)
        at com.sun.kvem.environment.Resources.<clinit>(Unknown Source)
        at com.sun.kvem.environment.ToolkitDirs.<clinit>(Unknown Source)
        at com.sun.kvem.toolbar.Main$SplashWindow.<init>(Unknown Source)
        at com.sun.kvem.toolbar.Main.main(Unknown Source)
Caused by: java.io.FileNotFoundException: /Developer/JavaTools/j2me_wireless_toolkit2.2/wtklib/Mac/ktools.properties (No such file or directory)
        at java.io.FileInputStream.open(Native Method)
        at java.io.FileInputStream.<init>(FileInputStream.java:106)
        ... 5 more
Raven:~ untz$

Here are my settings:

Raven:~ untz$ cat .bash_profile
JAVA_HOME="/System/Library/Frameworks/JavaVM.framework/Home"; 
J2EE_HOME="/Developer/JavaTools/j2sdkee1.3.1";
J2ME_HOME="/Developer/JavaTools/j2me_wireless_toolkit2.2";
CATALINA_HOME="/Developer/JavaTools/jakarta-tomcat-5.0.28";
CLASSPATH=.:"$J2EE_HOME/lib/j2ee.jar":"$CATALINA_HOME/common/lib/servlet-api.jar":"$CATALINA_HOME/common/lib/jsp-api.jar":"/Developer/Database/hsqldb/lib/hsqldb.jar";
PATH=$PATH:$JAVA_HOME/bin:$J2EE_HOME/bin:$J2ME_HOME/bin;
VIMRUNTIME="/Applications/Vim.app/runtime";
export JAVA_HOME J2ME_HOME J2EE_HOME CATALINA_HOME PATH VIMRUNTIME bash
Raven:~ untz$ 

Do I need to add something to my CLASSPATH that belongs in the J2ME_HOME/lib directory?

Is J2ME Wireless Toolkit compliant with Mac OS X? Do I need to download a version that is compliant from somewhere other than Sun?

What is a ktools.properties file and what do I need to put inside it?

Also, I am trying to do this both from the command line and also seek a J2ME plug-in for Eclipse (that would work on OS X), does anyone have any suggestions?

With thanks!

[Unnsse Khan]

I found this URL (when I typed "OS X J2ME" on Google):

http://mpowers.net/midp-osx/

After taking a look at this website, does it imply that this is the only way to run MIDP applications on OS X and also that MIDP 1.0 is the only version that OS X supports?

[Simon Brown]

Last time I tried to do some J2ME on OSX, that MIDP 1.0 development kit was indeed the only way that I could get anything to work. That was about 6 months ago though, so perhaps things have changed.

[Unnsse Khan]

That really bites!

Especially when all the new books are on MIDP 2.0....

Has anyone heard Apple acknowledging this problem and doing something to alleviate it?

With thanks!