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Running .jar in J2ME emulator

Hello:

I have some .jar files that someone has sent me to simply run them and see how the J2ME applications work in order to estimate a cost for conversion.

I have downloaded the java j2me platform sdk 3.0 thinking I can simply "import" the .jar files
and I could run them.

Not that simple....or am I missing something.  I see no import function.  I tried to create a project, but the furthest I got was creation of an empty .jar/.jad file created from the unpacked .jar I was sent.

Can anyone help?  This has to be simple without requiring any IDE as I just want to run the darn things for now.

Attached is a typical directory structure of one of the .jar files, each representing a game.  Hopefully, this helps.

Thanks,

Dan
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Sounds like your doing everything right.

Do you get an error message when trying to create a project from jar? It should come back with something. I'm not running up to date (2.5 not 3.0) but when I create a project from a jar it tells me "project created." With 2.5 (and I assume 3.0) some projects had to be run "Over The Air" -if it used networking technology (which some games do.) To do that you select from the menu >Project > run via OTA. But, I don't think that's your problem because the j2me platform gives an error and tells you to run OTA if you try running without going OTA.

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