[jfisher]

the way i work is to use both netbeans and the rim jde - netbeans has wonderful features but the rim jde is much much quicker at compiling and has a better debugger - so all code development is done in netbeans, but all compiling and debugging is done in the rim jde, i have both environments using the same directory/source files and is probably the best way of working, i'll add this info to the new blog/guide when i do it. this solves your icon problem too; you just add the icon you want to your project in the rim jde, rightclick and select 'use as application icon' (alternatively look into using the homescreen class, someone posted on here last week with a lush bit of code that would solve any icon problems)