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Using BlackBerry Emulators for Web Development

The company name is RIM (Research In Motion) and here, you can download the software you need to emulate

many different versions of their BlackBerry smart phones >>

 

In order to be able to establish a connection between your emulators and webpages, you will need to run a service

called: MDS,make sure to download that too!

 

1. The MDS executible requires some version of the java JDK (click to visit their page), if you do not have it, you will need to download it and
install it.

 

2. Once successfully installed, you can click on the MDS icon to run.  When it runs properly, a DOS window will open and remain open.  A bunch of letters are output to the screen asit "does its thing".  Note that if when you click on the icon to run this executable, the DOS window opens and immediately closes, it means that something is wrong.  Likely, here's the issue:

 

MDS needs to have the following environmental variable properly set:

JAVA_HOME=C:Program FilesJavajdk1.5.0_22 (in my case, will vary depending on the particular version of JDK you have installed)

 

3. Once MDS is running, you can click on the icon of one of your smartphone emulators (you can install as many as you want).  Note that

If testing locally, you may get error 403 - some sort of access denied....the reason is that instead of using http://localhost/sitename, you need to use your computer's name in place of 'localhost.  In my case, if you  use a DOS prompt and issue this command: >echo %computername%, it outputs "lenovo3434", my coputer's name.  so I need to
point the blackberry to http://lenovo3434/sitename

 

 

here's a good resource page >>