Getting Started

Get started with MIDP development for your Nokia 6600

I’m assuming that you have the following

• A working J2SE SDK
• A working eclipse installation

The next thing you need is a copy of the Series 60 MIDP SDK 2.0 Beta for Symbian OS. Download that, and follow the installation instructions. Next you’ll need to download Antenna, just grab the .jar and stick it somewhere useful.

I’ve provided a skeleton eclipse project for your convienience, download and unzip that. Then import it into your eclipse workspace. Then you’ll need to customise the project to fit your system.

1. Open up project.properties and make sure that wtk.home points to the directory you installed the SDK to.
2. Right click on the project and choose “Properties”, make sure the reference to kmidp20.zip is correct.
3. Right click on build.xml and choose “Run Ant”
4. Choose the classpath tab, then add external jar. Choose the Antenna jar you downloaded earlier.
5. Click run.

Congratulations! You should now be looking at your very own Hello World MIDP 2.0 application. However, running in an emulator isn’t perfect, so let’s get it running on the phone.

1. Start PC Suite for Nokia 6600
2. Choose Tools -> Install device software
3. Select the .jad file in the project’s dist directory

Once the process is complete, pick up your phone, the HelloWorld application should be sitting in the main menu. Open it and enjoy your Java.

I’d suggest taking some time to look at the build.xml file, as it’s the most important thing so far.

If you have any errors, let me know.