Research In Motion offers new
and enhanced tools for developing web applications for BlackBerry
smartphones. The tools include the new BlackBerry Web Development
Plug-in for Eclipse and the BlackBerry Plug-in for Microsoft Visual
Studio version 1.2. 
These tools are part of a complete portfolio of
BlackBerry developer tools for web and Java development and a set
of APIs that enable developers to create a wide variety of
mobile applications that connect BlackBerry smartphone users to the
information they care about. The BlackBerry application platform also incorporates real-time push technology, security and highly efficient data compression and network bandwidth utilization.
The BlackBerry Web Development Plug-in for Eclipse, available today at www.blackberry.com/developers/webeclipse, is a new plug-in that allows developers to create web applications and content for BlackBerry smartphones within the familiar Eclipse 3.4 environment. Using this plug-in, developers can debug and profile Internet/intranet web pages displaying HTML and CSS content in addition to more complex rich internet applications using AJAX, Silverlight, PHP, ASP, Ruby on Rails, JSP, and Python.
BlackBerry Plug-in for Microsoft Visual Studio version 1.2, available today at www.blackberry.com/developers/webvisualstudio, provides an all-in-one tool for developers to create web applications and content for BlackBerry® smartphones within the Visual Studio 2008 environment. Using this plug-in, developers can create simple Internet/intranet web pages or more complex, rich Internet applications using AJAX and ASP.Net.
Both tools feature BlackBerry smartphone simulators for testing and debugging projects, and web application profiling for visibility into data traffic, load time and use of web based content, including elements such as images, CSS, JavaScript, HTML and objects.
For more information, visit BlackBerry Developer Zone at www.blackberry.com/developer.
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