How do I clean the installed java programs from the Blackberry simulator?

Question

How do I clean the installed java programs from the Blackberry simulator?

Answer 1

Run clean.bat file from the "simulator" folder located on your installation path

C:\Program Files\Research In Motion\BlackBerry JDE 4.5.0\simulator

Or if you are using BB plugin for eclipse then it must be under foll.path

C:\Eclipse\plugins\net.rim.eide.componentpack4.5.0_4.5.0.16\components\simulator

Answer 2

Re-setting/cleaning the simulator isn't always easy. I've tried several times to debug this, but I end up doing the following steps to clean up my simulator(s):

1. Run clean.bat. If that doesn't work, then step #2.

2. I try to manually remove files from the simulator directory. If my application was called "SampleApp", I try to delete anything named "SampleApp.*". If that doesn't work, then step #3.

3. Uninstall, then re-install the simulator or plug-in. I keep clean copies of simulators and/or plugins on my local drive.

As stated elsewhere, your simulator directories are located:

C:\Program Files\Research In Motion\BlackBerry JDE 4.5.0\simulator

or if using Eclipse:

C:\Eclipse\plugins\net.rim.eide.componentpack4.5.0_4.5.0.16\components\simulator

By the way, have you looked at clean.bat? It's the craziest thing. "Let's change the file permissions of files we think we know, and then try to delete files that we think need to be deleted, and let's run for a very long time, and silently die." Nice.

Thanks RIM.