PalmSource has announced its Palm OS Developer Suite to broaden the development and deployment of next generation enterprise, multimedia and wireless applications for Palm Powered smart mobile devices.
The new tool chain is designed to provide software developers with an easier and faster path toward creating Palm OS applications for all current releases of Palm OS and Palm OS 6. In-depth technical details, and a preview version of the product, will be provided at the PalmSource Developer Conference in San Jose, California on Feb 10-12, 2004.
The new Palm OS Developer Suite includes an open-source Integrated Development Environment (IDE) based on
Eclipse, originally developed by IBM. Eclipse is a commercial-quality IDE with several hundred plug-in tools that support many major software development languages including C, C++, Java, and COBOL.