Issue #3
June 2005

Latest & Greatest

Get Ready ...

Keep your eyes and mouse pointed to www.blackberrydeveloper.com this month for the reveal of some exciting new changes coming soon!

Developing Wireless Applications to Mobilize the Enterprise

Want to know the inside scoop on BlackBerry application development? Learn first hand from a series of developer presentations that were given at the Wireless Enterprise Symposium in April of this year. These expert presentations from RIM are available for download in Developer Zone and the Wireless Enterprise Symposium site. Hone your understanding of application development for BlackBerry with topics that cover application design principles, Java™ and browser-based application development for BlackBerry and the Plazmic® Content Developer Kit. Learn more from these presentations.

Got WLAN? Get the BlackBerry 7270 Wireless Handheld

The portfolio of BlackBerry® handhelds has recently branched out with the introduction of the new BlackBerry 7270 Wireless Handheld™. This new handheld provides on-premises or facility-based workers access to wireless email, data and Session Initiated Protocol (SIP) based IP Telephony via 802.11b Wireless Local Area Networks (WLANs). The BlackBerry 7270™ is the first handheld designed to operate on a WLAN and works with BlackBerry Enterprise Server™ v4.0 to enhance the productivity, efficiency and flexibility of on-premises workers. Learn more about BlackBerry 7270.

Bluetooth and BlackBerry

Memory Management Whitepapers available on BlackBerry.com

Check out three recently released whitepapers on Memory Management for BlackBerry on BlackBerry Developer Zone:

• Low Memory Manager in the BlackBerry Java Development Environment – discover what the Low Memory Manager is, how to invoke it and sample code to get you started.

• Garbage Collection in the BlackBerry Java Development Environment – a detailed overview on how the garbage collection system works in the BlackBerry JDE.

• Memory Best Practices for the BlackBerry Java Development Environment – this document includes tools, tips and other ideas for managing critical device resources and minimizing memory usage.

AvantGo for BlackBerry Now Available!

AvantGo for BlackBerry gives you the opportunity to stay connected to the latest news, business, sports and entertainment mobile Internet sites as well as providing on-the-go information for technology, legal, medical and finance professionals. With AvantGo, you have access to thousands of specially formatted brand name web sites ("channels") on your BlackBerry device, including AccuWeather, Bloomberg, CNET, Forbes, Hollywood.com, The Golf Channel, Reuters, RollingStone.com, The Sporting News, Wired News and more.  

To sign up for this free service or learn more about AvantGo, a service of iAnywhere, please visit www.avantgo.com.

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Ask the Guru

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Tips & Tricks

Need some quick tips? Find shortcuts to solutions we and other developers have discovered. In this issue, Code Blue: tips and tricks on keeping your code neat and clean.

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Upcoming Events

Handango Partner Summit – June 22-24, 2005 in Miami, FL

The Handango Partner Summit is an invite-only event bringing together the top 200 mobile software development firms and industry influencers from around the world. The Summit features in-depth presentations from market leaders, networking sessions, panel discussions and small-group peer sessions.

Attendees will hear from experts and executives from the leaders in the mobile software industry. As a gold sponsor, RIM will be involved in several key presentations including keynote address, workshops and Birds of a Feather sessions. Click here for more information.

BlackBerry at JavaOne – June 27 -29, 2005 in San Francisco, CA

Stop by the BlackBerry booth (#1612) in the Mobility Village at the JavaOne Pavilion. We will be showcasing our revised BlackBerry Developer Zone web site and looking for your feedback. By filling out a brief survey you will be entered for a chance to win a limited edition BlackBerry “Ask the Guru” JavaOne T-shirt and 1 of 3 free BlackBerry devices. Other booth activities include technical representatives exhibiting valuable developer tools including the BlackBerry JDE and MDS Studio v4.1 and the release of a special edition BlackBerry Developer Journal.

Research In Motion will have both David Yach, Senior VP of Software and Michael Shenfield, Manager, Advanced Technologies Group present a session (TS-7888) titled “Beyond JSR-172: A Wireless Component Architecture to Enable Mobile Web Services” as part of the Mobility and Devices track. This technical session presents a novel approach to building truly lightweight, mobile applications that seamlessly integrate with web service-enabled back-ends. The applications are expressed using XML and could be either developed with an appropriate IDE or dynamically generated ad-hoc using web service information such as WSDL, BPEL, JSR 181-based metadata and so on. The session includes multiple XML examples, code samples and wireless demos.

For more information, visit: http://java.sun.com/javaone/

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Developer Journal

Get the latest tips and tutorials from RIM developers in this technical journal. Some great topics to read about in-depth include:

• Taking out the Trash: Garbage Collection
  A tutorial on the inner workings of the BlackBerry wireless device's garbage collection system.

• Creating a RSS/RDF Push Service for BlackBerry
  A tutorial with source code that details how to create a browser channel push to push an html or wml page to a BlackBerry handheld through the BlackBerry Mobile Data Service (MDS). In short, Really Simple Syndication (RSS) for BlackBerry!

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