Welcome to BlackBerry Development Fundamentals. I hope you enjoy reading this book and keep it on your bookshelf for a long time. After working for Research In Motion (RIM) and helping its customers understand their options for building custom applications for the BlackBerry platform, I knew the time was right for a book like this. Although the world is full of developers who know how to build applications for desktop, server, and even mobile platforms, many people building their first applications for BlackBerry just don’t know where to start. The BlackBerry has so many interesting and unique capabilities, and the BlackBerry applications platform does so much for the.
