Handling dependencies in blackberry development

Question

How can I handle 3rd party dependencies in a .jad file? Is it possible to bundle a .jar? Do you need to unpack it and include the .class

Answer 1

JAR files can NOT be combined with COD files. You first need to convert these JAR files to COD files (and you should sign them as well). If additional JAR files are supposed to be used as library COD files you need to use the -library switch instead of -midlet for the rapc.exe compiler.

Once you got your COD files you need to refer in your JAD file to all of the COD files including file sizes. The COD file might look like:

Manifest-Version: 1.0
MIDlet-Data-Size: 2048
MIDlet-Version: 1.4.1
MIDlet-Jar-Size: 136999
MIDlet-Icon: /icons/myprogram.png
MicroEdition-Configuration: CLDC-1.1
MIDlet-Jar-URL: myprogram.jar
MIDlet-Name: myprogram
MIDlet-1: myprogram,/icons/myprogram.png,com.stackoverflow.myprogram
MicroEdition-Profile: MIDP-2.0
MIDlet-Vendor: My Company
Ant-Version: Apache Ant 1.6.5
Skylab-Build-Number: 2968:2970
Created-By: 1.5.0_01-b08 (Sun Microsystems Inc.)
RIM-COD-Module-Dependencies: net_rim_cldc,lib_1,lib_2,lib_3,lib_4,net_rim_locationapi
RIM-COD-URL: myprogram.cod
RIM-COD-Size: 77576
RIM-COD-URL-1: myprogram-1.cod
RIM-COD-Size-1: 29960
RIM-COD-URL-2: lib_1.cod
RIM-COD-Size-2: 28668
RIM-COD-URL-3: lib_2.cod
RIM-COD-Size-3: 8712
RIM-COD-URL-4: lib_3.cod
RIM-COD-Size-4: 18232
RIM-COD-URL-5: lib_4.cod
RIM-COD-Size-5: 12752
RIM-MIDlet-Flags-1: 0
RIM-MIDlet-Position-1: 0
RIM-COD-Module-Name: myprogram
RIM-MIDlet-NameResourceId-1: 0
RIM-COD-Creation-Time: 1143020761
RIM-COD-SHA1: 0b 9f b1 da 47 bc 6f 97 62 eb 32 66 77 ca a9 6f 24 4d 10 8a