Unwired Accelerator integrates M-Business Anywhere with Mobile Web Studio to deploy mobile applications to mobile devices, such as PocketPC and Palm OS. Mobile Web Studio provides menu access to M-Business Anywhere functionality; in fact, you should manage M-Business Anywhere through the Mobile Web Studio interface and not through the M-Business Anywhere interface.
All M-Business Client users require an M-Business Anywhere user account to receive mobile applications upon synchronization. Use Mobile Web Studio to create M-Business Anywhere accounts. See “M-Business Anywhere accounts” for more information.
From Mobile Web Studio, you can deploy mobile applications either with channels or applications. Keep in mind these guidelines for determining which to use:
Channels – HTML applications with a single HTTP request pointing back to the UA server. Channels on the PDA represent a set of HTML pages that are browsed by following the links on the page.
Channels can either be public channels (available to all users) or group channels (available to members of a group, or category, to which the channel is deployed).
Channels send spidered HTML to the mobile device through M-Business Anywhere server. Spidered HTML includes the captured content including embedded images and click-through links. You can specify the link depth (the level to which M-Business must spider for data starting at the first page), and the maximum size of the data (since spidering can cause data size to grow very quickly).
Typically, you need only channels if the mobile application generates images or HTML, or is not in structured, tabular format.
See “Managing channels” for additional information and procedures.
Applications – mobile applications that include three components: XML location (the URL to the data), XSD location (the URL to the schema or data definition), and the BLUI location (the URL to the business logic and user interface information).
Applications can be Web, database, or group applications.
A database table is created on the mobile device using the XSD and XML information, making it possible to perform JDBC like queries and operations, and perform a subset of SQL like operations on the table data.
Applications must be in structured or tabular format.
Applications provide more functionality than channels.
See “Managing applications” for procedures.
To learn more about M-Business Anywhere, see the M-Business Server Administration Guide located at:
http://localhost:8091/enterprise_doc/Admin_Mbiz.pdf
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