Developing for Nokia N97

**xchaotic** · 7 July 2009, 14:56

Originally posted by xoggoth View Post

I need ActivePerl and Java run time from Sun. The acronym it says I need does not seem to match exactly the various things available from Sun. For IDE/emulator I think I need Eclipse, going from other places on Nokia site.

ActivePerl is just a distribution of Perl language on windows and has nothing to do with Sun.
The acronym you're looking for is JRE and most likely JDK too and as long as you're getting the latest (1.6.x) you should be fine.

I've not looked in N97 very closely, but I'm sure it runs Symbian and one the nicest thing about it is probably trying to develop through QT framework to get some nice interface features.

Alternatively, you could write a webapp that works both on iPhone and N97 browsers... depends what you need to do really...

**xoggoth** · 8 July 2009, 10:31

Ta for comment. J2SE I was looking for is now JSE apparently. Think I have all I need insatlled but quite how I begin to do anything I have still not figured out.

**NotAllThere** · 8 July 2009, 12:46

I've got an N97, and it does indeed run Symbian. Symbian 60v5 to be precise.

**xoggoth** · 8 July 2009, 19:16

I've given up. Followed instructions on instals and nothing works as docs say. No info on net. From other thread the N97 is crud anyway.

**pzz76077** · 8 July 2009, 19:31

I really would like to see something to challenge the iphone, but the N97 isnt it.
I can see Nokia going bust if they keep on like this (& I used to contract there!).

Hopefully the next Samsung??

PZZ

Developing for Nokia N97