This tutorial guides you through the development of an UltraLiteJ application for BlackBerry smartphones using the Research In Motion BlackBerry Java Development Environment. In this tutorial, you run the application on a BlackBerry simulator and deploy the application to a physical device. Code samples are provided throughout the tutorial, and a complete listing of the code is available at the end of the tutorial.

The tutorial assumes the following:

• You are familiar with the Java programming language.
• You have Research In Motion BlackBerry JDE 4.2 or later installed on your computer.
• You have UltraLiteJ installed on your computer. The default installation location for UltraLiteJ is install-dir\UltraLite\UltraLiteJ .
• You have the Research In Motion MDS Services Simulator installed on your computer. This is required for part 2.