Monthly Archives: August 2010

Netbeans on n900

I meant to post some time ago about how great the n900 is for java development. Not only can one install OpenJDK, but Netbeans is even usable. It’s pretty easy to get running. Just install openjdk6 in the application manager. Then download and run the netbeans installer.

It even runs at quite a reasonable speed if [...]

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Java Abuse: public static void main was not invented here.

Normally a command-line Java application will have an entry method that looks something like:

public static void main(String… args) {
/* Code that launches the application/deals with command line params here */
}

This is far too easy, there must be a way to NIH it ¬_¬. There are a few annoyances with the public [...]

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