What development environment do most BB devs use? I have not done more Java programs in 6-7 years and have usually used Netbans or J.CyRR for projects because I have found eclipse cumbersome. There is a plugin for Eclipse in RIM, but I have read some such posts, where people want the editors they want and then using ANT for the construction and testing.
I am coming from .NET, so obviously I am a heavy VSNet user.
Your supported options are JDE (just not quite capable of any modern IDE), and eclipse For widget development, the VIsual Studio plugin supports VS 2005 and 2008 (I do not think 2010 is yet, but I hope this will not be so far behind.)
I have a lot of pain The reason I'm trying to stick with Netbeans (eclipse makes me itchy), but eventually left and switched on the eclipse. The support that was made for the queen is not there only; I was able to get basic debugging to work with Netbeans, but that was about it. Simple things like "breaking up without exception"; Or localization handling (using string resources) were either not possible, or were very inefficient.
The JDE is sufficient for debugging, if only barely though there is no difference between JDE and Eclipse debugging features in my experience (especially in the latest versions).
You have other options to use the IDE of your choice; And you have to use it with an entry-based build script. You will still have some pain points (mostly localization handling), but this will work. The Blackberry Ant Tool project can be found here: In this case you still want to use JDE / Eclipse for ease of debugging, but you will be able to make most of your development in the IDE of your choice.
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