Mobile Web Studio terminology

This section discusses some basic concepts and terms you should be familiar with before you start using Unwired Accelerator to develop applications. When you log in to Mobile Web Studio, you can choose the Mobile Web Studio objects that you want to work with and have permission to access.

**Table 2-1: Mobile Web Studio functions**
Mobile Web Studio
Build
Mobile applications	Create applications that you can deploy to the different types of mobile devices.
Templates	Templates define the organization of applications that contain more than one element by where applications are located, background HTML code, and so on. You can apply the templates you create to applications. You can assign a different template for each device type for a given application. See Chapter 6, “Building Templates.”
Catalogs	Catalogs allow you to create user-defined hierarchies of content for display in an application. See Chapter 8, “Building Catalogs”.
Pages and page groups	Use page groups as containers for mobile applications deployed to a mobile device.
Composite applications	Composite applications allow you to create virtual Web applications using several existing applications. See “Building composite applications”.
Automate
Agents (alerts)	E-mail/SMS Database File system Push synchronization Create, edit, manage, start, stop, and view logs for agents that automatically process application content. See Chapter 7, “Using Unwired Accelerator Alerts.”
Adapters	Create, edit, manage, and view logs for adapters that write application content to e-mails, databases, or file systems. See Chapter 7, “Using Unwired Accelerator Alerts.”
Servers	Create, manage, and view logs for servers on which agents run. See Chapter 7, “Using Unwired Accelerator Alerts.”
Manage
Resources	Create and manage portal resources, or cobrands.
Users	Provides single sign-on LDAP, user name, and password authentication
Roles	Control access to UA resources by granting roles for security to a single user or group of users
Personalization	Configure application parameter input values to be filled in from adapters that extract values from other sources.
M-Business Anywhere Server	Provide M-Business server functions management for channels, group applications, and users.
MobiLink	View a list of applications that have been deployed to the MobiLink database.
Devices	Create a custom look-and-feel BlackBerry client for a particular resource identifier (RID).
Application Builder
Content Capture	Web accessible sources – Web sites and Web applications XML sources Databases JSP or ASP applications Web Services (or advanced Web Services plus WSDL file objects) HTML sources Documents – PDF, Word, Excel, etc. Domino – build applications from Domino Business Objects SAP – build applications from any SAP/R3 Remote Function Call See Chapter 3, “Developing Applications” for detailed information.
Save	Save an application, save an application to another name, and publish to UDDI.
Edit properties	Edit the properties of an application any time. See “Saving applications” and “Viewing and editing applications”.
Configure parameters	Identify or create application parameters, such as CGI scripts for Web elements or custom @OP parameters for XML and database applications. See “Parameters”.
Labels	Create custom field labels for data-capable elements. See “Labels”.
Data Type	Define special data types, such as integer, string, E-mail, phone, address, calendar, task, contact, or add a new data type. See “Data types”.
Templates	Portal, BlackBerry Online, Nokia Online, Palm Online, PPC Online, Smartphone Online, WAP-HTML, WAP-WML, PDA Online
Preview	Preview application playback, XML, and edit screen, and preview by device type. See “Previewing applications”.

Figure 2-1: Mobile Web Studio