Blackberry Development - Any suggestions on references and tools?

Question

I\'m looking for good reference materials and open to recommendations about good IDE tools that I can use to develop for the Blackberry. I\'ve been to RIM\'s site and exper

Answer 1

I'd recommend developing in NetBeans or Eclipse. Either of those are far superior IDEs than the RIM JDE. I've used NetBeans for the past 9 months for Blackberry development with good success. In terms of reference material, I'd recommend using the Blackberry Java forum as your knowledgebase; almost every question I've come up with has been answered there.