It has been quite a while since i quit the IT industry now, to start studying at DTU. Yesterday though, i got tempted to try out the final release of Netbeans 6, and decided to take it for a spin and port my old BeamTrons game to J2ME.

I must say i´m really impressed with Netbeans 6! I have been working professionally with Netbeans since version 3.x, but have never really felt that any of the major versions have been really ground shaking and innovative. This time though, the thing that struck me the most was, everything in the UI is SO polished! I am a real UI nazi and there was so many UI things that annoyed me in the previous versions of Netbeans (though it was still far better than eclipse!)

Especially the new deployment options are so cool! There is even an option so i can deploy the midlet directly to my S60 nokia phone directly after building it, using the standard Nokia USB cable that came with my phone. Sony Ericsson has had this for ages with their remote debugging capabilities in their SDK. Correct me if i´m wrong, but i have´nt seen this on any of my Nokia handsets yet?

Anyway, I renamed the game to Selectrons (actually because of lazyness due to filesystem conflicts hehe), and ported it to J2ME in an evening. It´s still needs some more functionality etc. to be really fun, but i can´t really think of anything right now. Suggestions are welcome

Download

source (Netbeans 6 project)

Binary (.jar)