Java – Guide for developing J2ME applications

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.

I developed a standard J2ME application in netbeans with about 10 UI screens and using webservices. I was quiet satisfied with the results. I then spent about a week trying to "port" this application to a blackberry. (Trying your approach of getting blackberry api working on Netbeans and trying native J2ME on the blackberry SDK)

I then only managed to get successful results by starting a fresh Blackberry application using the standard blackberry Eclipse IDE. Although I have two separate applications in different platforms I am happy with this two IDE approach.