Unwired Accelerator provides the ability to easily deploy mobile applications to mobile devices. You can deploy mobile applications to a variety of devices, including PDAs, BlackBerry, Symbian/J2ME, and SmartPhones.
After you create and approve an application, you need to decide how to deploy it. Following are a few guidelines to help in the process:
Keep in mind whether devices are used in online or offline mode.
Keep in mind that some UA features are not available on all devices, or in all modes. For example, the insert/update/delete features, and the linked applications and linked parameters features are not supported in online (browser) mode, only in offline mode; the e-mail and phone data types are only available in online mode.
Online mode – to make the application available in online mode, create a page and page group combination for the application. The page and page group creates a container for the application, making it available to browsers running in online mode. For example, BlackBerry, Symbian/J2ME, Pocket PC, Portal Interface, and so forth. Typically, create a page/page group for every application.
You can see approved pages and page groups by selecting Build | Pages or Build | Page Groups. Ideally, use the application name for the page and page group names, so you can keep track of which applications are deployed.
Offline mode (BlackBerry and Symbian/J2ME) – to make an application available to BlackBerry and Symbian/J2ME clients in offline mode, you must select the “Make available for disconnected mobile devices” option on the Mobile tab (see “Mobile tab” for information).
You can see the applications assigned to offline mode by selecting Build | Applications in the left pane, selecting Approved, and checking the Offline column. A check in the Offline column indicates offline mode.
Offline mode (PDAs) – to make an application available to PDAs in offline mode, you must deploy to Mobilink. To do so, select the approved application, right-click, select Deploy to MobiLink, and click OK to confirm when prompted.
You can see a list of applications deployed to MobiLink by selecting Manage | MobiLink in the left pane.
M-Business (connected and disconnected) – to make an application available to M-Business clients, you must deploy to M-Business through public or group channels. The mobile applications are stored in the M-Business Anywhere AGDB database, and deployed to mobile devices when the user logs on, either in connected or disconnected mode depending on the mobile device capabilities.
To deploy an application to M-Business Anywhere, the
application can contain only one element; multiple-element applications
are not compatible as mobile applications.
