This blog is taking a new turn as I’m taking on a new job currently dealing with build automation for mobile development and Macintosh development. The first project I had to deal with was automating the build for a BlackBerry application originally developed in Eclipse with Blackberry plugin. I chose to automate the build with Ant with the help of the wonderful bb-ant-tools package. There are a number of tutorials giving a nice overview of how this is done, so I won’t describe the basics – you can visit the following links for that: http://www.slashdev.ca/2007/05/30/blackberry-development-with-ant-eclipse http://supportforums.blackberry.com/t5/Java-Development/How-to-use-bb-ant-tools-with-Eclipse-without-the-Eclipse-plugin/m-p/123689 By the way, I built the whole thing on a windows 2007 VM and I did install Eclipse Galileo with BlackBerry plugin and BlackBerry Java SDK  version 4.6.0.23. I needed this to check how the project is built with Eclipse and to make sure that the changes I insert don’t mess up the Eclipse…

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