As you might know (or could have guessed from my blog entries) I am a Blackberry user. Since I have got my first Blackberry I really love it, I think it is the best communication/organizer device currently available.

In my opinion, the only disadvatage of a Blackberry compared to a Palm device is that there are not so many applications out there. There are some tasks I could not find me the right program to do the job and so I decided to maybe develop a small application by myself.

I am a Java developer an so I tried out the Java development environments provided by RIM and I was really disappointed. The IDE provided by RIM is crap. If you are used to Eclipse (which I am) it is nearly impossible to work it.

So I downloaded the JDE component package and tried to configure it with Eclipse. I invested about four hours until I realized that it is not possible to work with this constellation too. The biggest problem is the non Java standard way RIM uses for I18N. Aside from that it should be possible to use EclipseME to write Java applications for a Blackberry. This post describes how to configure it.

RIM, please provide us an easy way to develop Java applications for your devices! (maybe an IDE based on Eclipse?)