Blackberry Simulator and MDS

Question

Has anybody got the BB simulator and MDS simulator to work?

I have the MDS installed and 4 BB phone sim's. For some reason, when I first install the BB sim it might work and then it will stop working.

Has anybody had this issue and know how to fix it?

Answer 1

Well, there are several common mistakes when using MDS simulator with BlackBerry Simulator.

1. If you're opening network http connections you need to add "deviceside=false" parameter to your urls
2. In case you're behind proxy, you have to add several configuration parameters to enable MDS Simulator check them out here

Answer 2

1. MDS should be running before you start the simulator; and it listens on port 8080, so make sure nothing else is listening on that port before you start it.

2. The simulator seems to pick up the MDS location from rimpublic.property, which is part of the MDS install, and rimpublic.property needs to have the fully qualified host name in it, not localhost.

3. If you've started your simulator without the MDS running, you will need to remove the .dmp files in [installroot]/[phonemodel].

These rules seem to have work for me so far.