I am studying WML and WAP at semester 5 in BscIT and i had hard time finding the nokia wap toolkit as used in my books.When i finally got a copy from a friend , it never loaded the jvm even though beside java 1.6 that was previouly installed i installed jre 1.4 .Besides i have a dual booting windows7/Ubuntu12.04. i clearly prefer working from Ubuntu. Is there any alternatives. Like IDE, eclipse, netbeans, intellij ? what I've seen so far are Android sdk,java MIDP projects from these IDEs but not some sort of wml project.
Please point me to the right direction. thank you
You could try the Openwave SDK, which has been helpfully archived here. Sadly, just like the Nokia WAP Toolkit it is no longer available or supported by the manufacturer.
Obviously it isn't going to match the examples in your books, but it should give you a simple environment in which to run and test WAP applications. Note this is Windows only, and pre-dates Windows 7; hopefully it will run.