Eclipse and Microsoft Visual Studio Plug-Ins now Available forBlackBerry Widget Developers

Research In Motion has announced that the BlackBerry Web Plug-in version 2.0 Beta1 editions of the web tooling for Eclipse and Microsoft Visual Studio are now available for download. Beta1 of the 2.0 version continues support for debugging and profiling web sites using the BlackBerry Browser. New to this release is the capability to also perform these web site debugging tasks on the BlackBerry Device Software version 5.0.

In this release there is new support for building BlackBerry Widget projects. These tools will allow you to create BlackBerry Widgets in a much more automated manner compared to calling the BlackBerry Widget SDK via the command line. RIM has also added a getting started page that will appear when you start using the tooling that will connect you with the right online resources, forums and content to speed your widget development. You can dowload the BlackBerry Web Plug-in version 2.0 Beta1.