Recently, I discussed setting up Eclipse for a mobile development with a developer. What was quite striking was the procedure the developer used. For years now the developer had followed the advice all over the web of download Eclipse, download EclipseME, download the Sun WTK. The developer had even checked via Google search to see if the advice was still current, and found all the articles that he had been seeing for years listing the above setup process.
When actually building the development environment, he followed the procedure: download Eclipse, download EclipseME, etc. The developer simply went to each site, ignored everything on the page except the download button/link, and never noticed all the discussion on the EclipseME site about MTJ. While he ended up with a workable EclipseME environment, there were bugs that he encountered that we have fixed in MTJ.
So my request. If you have have posted, or know someone who has posted instructions on the web or internally at your company on how to set up a mobile development environment, please take a few minutes to update the instructions to indicate MTJ instead of EclipseME for new development environments. If you see outdated instructions on the web, take a moment to send feedback to the author that the page is out of date and needs to be refreshed. (I see as top hits in Google recommendations to download Eclipse 3.0.1 and EclipseME 0.7!)
For some projects that need a long term stable environment, EclipseME may be the most appropriate solution. But for new development environments and projects, I hope we all agree that MTJ now provides a better solution for developers. (If not, please make suggestions for improvement here!!)
Regards,
Eric Hildum
Senior Product Manager, Mobile Developer Tools & SDK
Software Platforms and Delivery
Ecosystem and Market Development
Motorola
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