Preface
The mobile industry is evolving rapidly. An increasing number of mobile devices, such as smartphones and tablets, are sold every year and more people are accessing services from a mobile device than ever before. For an enterprise, this can mean that a growing number of customers, business partners, and even employees now expect to access services on a mobile channel. This opens new opportunities for the business but also presents new challenges, both in terms of business processes and information technology (IT) infrastructure.
IBM® Worklight® is an open and extensible mobile application platform that brings together many mobile capabilities into a single product. It helps organizations of all sizes to efficiently develop, connect, run, and manage HTML5, hybrid, and native applications. It uses standards-based technologies and tools, supports multiple security mechanisms, and delivers a comprehensive development environment, mobile-optimized middleware, and an integrated management and analytics console. IBM Worklight provides the essential elements needed for complete mobile application development, deployment, and management within a business.
IBM Worklight enables the creation of rich, cross-platform applications without the need for code translation or proprietary interpreters. It helps an IT organization reduce the time to market, cost, and complexity of development, and enables better user experiences across the range of mobile devices.
This IBM Redbooks® publication provides information necessary to design, develop, deploy, and maintain mobile applications using IBM Worklight, IBM WebSphere® Cast Iron®, and other key IBM products. It includes information about decision points that the IT organization will need to make, the roles that are involved in a mobile strategy and the responsibilities of the individuals in those roles. It also describes integration points with other IBM products that can enhance the mobile solution.
This book is separated into two parts:
•Part 1 is intended for a more business-oriented information technology (IT) audience and addresses the business aspects of the mobile industry. The chapters in Part 1 focus on the considerations and tasks that are necessary to build a mobile strategy and explains how decisions, such as which mobile devices to support can affect various organizations within an enterprise. The target audience for this part of the book is an IT architect or CTO, who can translate business needs into information technology solutions. These individuals have knowledge of both business and technical aspects of the enterprise and collaborate with other staff and stakeholders about establishing business goals. They then help translate these goals into the requirements for new and existing IT projects, systems, and infrastructure.
•Part 2 is intended for a technical audience, including application developers, testers, and system administrators. It details a step-by-step process to reuse existing business services and extend those services to a mobile device. The chapters in this part discuss the actual coding, building, and testing of a mobile application using IBM Worklight Studio, including testing using both simulated and real devices. Deployment of the application to an application store where users can install the mobile application, and updating the application to fix problems and add new functionality will also be covered.
Authors
This book was produced by a team of specialists from around the world working at the IBM China Development Lab, Shanghai, People’s Republic of China.
Andreas Dannhauer is an Architect in the IBM Software Group's Lab Services in Boeblingen, Germany. He is currently on assignment in the Shanghai branch of the China Development Lab to drive the mobile business in the greater China region. He earned his degree in Business Informatics, and specialized in mobile, wireless, and embedded computing after joining IBM in 2001. He has deep insight into the automotive and retail industries and specializes in architecting and implementing end-to-end solutions for mobile and distributed environments. He was a key driver in various mobile, telematics and retail projects based on IBM WebSphere and Lotus® embedded software technology.
Ming Zhe Huang is a member of the IBM Worklight development team from the IBM China Software Development Lab, Shanghai, People’s Republic of China. He has five years experience in Web 2.0 development including AJAX and Flex. Prior to joining IBM, he worked on various Web 2.0 projects including SaaS, visualization, and mobile web development. He works closely with various customers to architect, design, and build mobile solutions for their businesses.
Paul Idstein is an IT Service Specialist with IBM Software Group WebSphere Services in Germany. He has four years of experience in mobile computing and web technologies working for variety of customers in automotive, manufacturing, insurance, and banking industries. He holds a degree in International Business Information Technology from Baden-Wuerttemberg Corporate State University. His areas of expertise include distributed web systems, mobile messaging, and connectivity. He has written extensively about business intelligence and cloud computing.
Todd Kaplinger is a Senior Technical Staff Member (STSM) and IBM Master Inventor in the IBM Software Group. He is the Mobile Cloud Platform Architect (Worklight - IBM MobileFirst) and has been a leading IBM Thought Leader and Architect in mobile for the past three years. Todd is an expert in web-based technologies such as Dojo, JSP, Servlet, and PHP, with recent focus on emerging Web 2.0 technologies and their impact on the enterprise. Todd has been the Lead Architect on other WebSphere projects and has participated in the JSR 154 Servlet 2.5 Specification as an IBM representative in the Servlet Expert Group.
Hossam Katory is an IT Specialist with the IBM Software Group Cairo Lab in Egypt. He has eight years of experience in software globalization and the bidirectional languages support field. He holds a Bachelor of Engineering degree in Computer Engineering from the Arab Academy for Science, Technology, & Maritime Transport. His areas of expertise include EAM and ISM solutions, and also mobile web technologies. He has written extensively about building mobile web applications.
Christian Kirsch is a certified Senior IT Specialist with the IBM Software Group, working in the Mobile Business Solution Services Team in Boeblingen, Germany. In the last 13 years, he has gained experiences by leading and developing mobile solutions for customers in different brands and industries. His areas of expertise include mobile application development, workforce mobility, remote access, asset monitoring, track and trace, device management, and mobile remote patient monitoring solutions. Besides his customer engagements, Christian is an author of many articles for magazines, books, and blogs, and also patents about mobile technology.
Kearan McPherson is an IT Specialist in the IBM Software Solutions Lab based in Johannesburg, South Africa. He has four years of experience in virtualization and cloud computing technologies. He holds a Bachelor of Science (Honors) degree in Computer Science from the University of the Western Cape. His areas of expertise include virtualization and service management solutions. He has written extensively about cloud computing
Leonardo Olivera is an IT Specialist with IBM Global Services, Uruguay. He has 17 years of experience in application development and systems integration. He holds a degree in Computer Science Engineering from Universidad Católica del Uruguay. His areas of expertise include Java Enterprise Edition architecture, WebSphere Portal software, and sensor and actuators solutions. The last few years he has been working on mobile solutions for the healthcare industry.
Susan Hanson is a member of the WebSphere Application Server foundation development team. She has 22 years of experience in developing and delivering IBM software products across the WebSphere and IBM Tivoli® brands. She holds a Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science from East Carolina University and a Master's degree in Computer Information Systems from The University of Phoenix. She is based in Research Triangle Park, North Carolina and is temporarily working at the IBM China Development Laboratory in Shanghai, People’s Republic of China.
Thanks to the following people for their contributions to this project:
Tamikia Barrow, Deana Coble, Linda Robinson, Carla Sadtler, Margaret Ticknor, and Shawn Tooley
International Technical Support Organization, Raleigh Center
Robyn Gold, Frank Haynes
IBM US
Thomas Hesmer, Frank Müller
IBM Boeblingen, Germany
Yu Cao, Xiao Xia Qiu, and Yuan Peng Zhang
IBM China Software Development Lab, Shanghai
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