Java – Code J2ME applications with Visual Studio 2008

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I am currently using netbeans 6.7 to develop some j2me apps for a phone. However, I am not very fond of the netbeans IDE and its clunky debugger and would rather use Visual Studio for development.

Does anyone here have a tutorial on how to use Visual Studio 2008 to compile and debug J2ME apps? I would like to tie VS2008 up to an emulator so that I can run the code in the phone emulator and debug it like I would in netbeans.

Best Answer

I personally swear by Intellij Idea -- the best damn ide for java devt there is out there. And it has excellent j2me integration too. One may be put off by the fact that it's not free, but a) $200 is nothing compared to a VS license (or IBM WSDS if you're unlucky) and b) this is the most polished java ide I've seen. Well worth the money, and it comes with a warm fuzzy feeling.