Accessing Mobile Web Studio

Mobile Web Studio is a Web-based rapid development tool for creating mobile applications from existing Web applications or from data sources like databases, XML, Web Services, HTML, and JSPs/ASPs.

Mobile Web Studio also provides access to system administration tools for managing Unwired Accelerator user accounts, roles and permission, and resources; and M-Business Anywhere channels, groups, and user accounts. Use Internet Explorer to access Mobile Web Studio.

Logging in to the Mobile Web Studio

When logging in to Mobile Web Studio as a system administrator, use an account with the StudioAdmin role. Unwired Accelerator provides a default StudioAdmin account called masuper (the password is m8super). Use this account to get started, then set up your own roles, permissions, and accounts as described in Chapter 7, “Security.”

After you start the Mobile Web Studio, the login window displays.

Log in with the user name masuper and password m8super, and click Login. These are the default entries for the Mobile Web Studio account with administrative privileges.

You see the Mobile Web Studio Welcome window shown in Figure 2-1.

If your browser session expires, you see Session has expired. You need to re-authenticate. Click OK to close the message window, start a new browser session, log in, and close the windows of the old session.

Figure 2-1: Mobile Web Studio Welcome window

The Welcome window displays the:

Left pane menu – select from menu groupings that allow you to:

Build – create, edit, and manage applications, templates, catalogs, pages, page groups, and composite applications.
Automate – create agents to automatically process application content, or use adapters to write application content to an e-mail message, database, or file system.
Manage – manage Mobile Web Studio resources and create predefined application input fields or drop-down lists, which users can later personalize with their own values. Deploy applications to the M-Business Anywhere server or MobiLink server, and manage how applications display on various mobile devices (such as display dimensions, list and detail display values, column width, and so forth).

Status bar – always shows the user name of the person logged in to Mobile Web Studio (User), and the group of application pages available to this user (Resource).

Toolbar – this is the Mobile Web Studio static toolbar. From this toolbar, you can view your account information, or log out of Mobile Web Studio. Once you make a selection from the left pane, an option-specific toolbar displays.

Starting Mobile Web Studio manually

Alternatively you can access Mobile Web Studio manually.

Open a browser window and enter the following URL:

http://hostname.domain:port/onepage/index.html

For example, if your machine name is labxp, your domain is sybase.com, and your port number is 4040, enter:

http://labxp.sybase.com:4040/onepage/index.html

4040 is the default port number is you are using Tomcat as your application server.

In a development environment, your port number may be different, and in a production system, the port number may not be necessary at all if you are using port 80.

When the Mobile Web Studio Login window displays, log in with the user name masuper and password m8super, and click Login. You see the Mobile Web Studio Welcome window shown in Figure 2-1.