Blackberry Application Development – Part 2 (Stub Generator & Introduction to Eclipse)

Now we are starting to develop Blackberry part of our tutorial.

We will use following development IDE & tools during our tutorial.

• Eclipse 3.4.1 with Blackberry Plugin (Download)
• BlackBerry Email and MDS Services Simulator Package v4.1.4 (Download)
• Sun Java (TM) Wireless Toolkit 2.5.2_01 for CLDC (Download)

Check your webservice is correct or not using browser. Type the webservice url to address field. Webservice url seems like that : http://<hostname>/<nsf db file path>/<web service name>?wsdl

My webservice url is http://gmlfbulut.bestcoder.net/searchpeople.nsf/SearchPeople?wsdl

1. Open the Sun Java Wireless Toolkit application.
2. Select Stub Generator and click to Launch button.
3. Type necessary information to Dialog
   1. WSDL Filename or URL : Your WSDL URL –> http://<hostname>/<nsf db file path>/<web service name>?wsdl
   2. Output Path : Location for generated files. Select a directory. For example : C:\SearchPeople
   3. Output Package : Type the package name for your java files. For example : com.blackberry.searchpeople
   4. CLDC Version : Select CLDC 1.1 option. I don’t know exactly what is it 🙂
4. Select OK button to finish process.

If you got an error, please check this list to solve problem :

1. Check the domino server is running 🙂 just kidding …
2. Check HTTP Task on your server is running
   1. Type on console “show tasks”. On the list “HTTP Server” “Listen for connect requests on TCP Port : 80”
3. Check server configuration (I mentioned about in Part I)
4. Check Webservice Consumer codes

If everything is OK, Stub Generator shows a dialogbox like this. “Stub Generation Complete”

After that close Stub Generator application. Goto C:\SearchPeople directory. Look at files. You will see 8 files. We need java files to begin our blackberry application development.

Now open your Eclipse for Blackberry application.

Now we will create new Blackberry Project. Click to File –> New –> Project

Expand Blackberry category, select Blackberry Project and click to Next button.

Type a name for our project. I choose “SearchPeople” for my project’s name. And click to Finish button.

Our project looks like this from Package Explorer.

Now we need to add our java files to project.

Create a Package under src folder with the name “com.blackberry.searchpeople”

1. Right mouse click on the src folder.
2. Click to New –> Package
3. Name : com.blackberry.searchpeople
4. Click to Finish button.

Now add java source files to this package

1. Right mouse click on the package “com.blackberry.searchpeople”
2. Click to Import
3. Select General –> FileSystem category
4. From Directory : C:\SearchPeople\com\blackberry\searchpeople
5. Select *.Java files and click to Finish button.

Now our application looks like this.