C H A P T E R 1 - Getting Started

1-C H A P T E R

Getting Started

This chapter explains what you must do before starting the Sun Java Studio Mobility 6 tutorial. The topics covered in this section are:

Obtaining and Installing the Required Software

Starting the IDE

Obtaining and Installing the Required Software

The following items are used to create and run the tutorial:

The Sun Java Studio Mobility 6 Integrated Development Environment (IDE) which includes the following:

J2ME Wireless Toolkit 2.1

J2ME Wireless Toolkit 1.0.4_01 (optional)

J2ME Wireless Connection wizard (optional at installation, but required for the client/server application)

The two Currency Converter applications you will build in this tutorial.

Instructions for obtaining and installing the Java Studio Mobility software are detailed in the Sun Java Studio Mobility 6 2004Q3 Getting Started Guide.

Java 2 Software Development Kit (the J2SE SDK), version 1.4.1_02 or later 1.4.x release.

The installer will not run if you do not have the J2SE SDK on your system. If you do have a J2SE SDK on your system, the installer will start and then verify whether the J2SE SDK you are using is the version required by Java Studio Mobility for your platform. If you do not have the required version, the installer will quit and display a message that you must install the correct version before proceeding.

You can obtain the J2SE SDK from the same locations as the Java Studio Mobility software.

Starting the IDE

There are several ways to start the Java Studio Mobility IDE. Only one is described here. For more options, see the Sun Java Studio Mobility 6 2004Q3 Getting Started Guide.

To start the IDE:

Start the IDE by running the program executable.

On Microsoft Windows, choose Start Programs Sun Microsystems Sun Java Studio Mobility 6

On Solaris, UNIX, and Linux environments, run the runide.sh script in a terminal window, as follows:

$ sh jstudio-install-directory/bin/runide.sh

The jstudio-install-directory variable stands for the IDE's home directory, which is by default $HOME/SUNWjstudio/Mobile04q3 (UNIX standard user) or /opt/SUNWjstudio/Mobile04q3 (UNIX superuser).