Overview  Guidelines for developing applications

Chapter 2: Getting Started with Unwired Accelerator

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.

Composite applications

Composite applications allow you to create virtual Web applications using several existing applications. See “Building composite applications”.

Catalogs

Catalogs allow you to create user-defined hierarchies of content for display in an application. See Chapter 8, “Building Catalogs”.

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.”

Pages and page groups

Use page groups as containers for mobile applications deployed to a mobile device.

Automate

Agents (alerts)

  • E-mail/SMS

  • Database

  • File system

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

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

Application Builder

Content Capture

  • Web accessible sources – Web sites and Web applications

  • XML sources

  • JSP or ASP applications

  • HTML sources

  • Databases

  • Web Services

  • Documents – PDF, Word, Excel, etc.

  • SAP – Build applications from any SAP/R3 Remote Function Call

Labels

Create custom field labels for data-capable elements. See “Application labels”.

Configure parameters

Identify or create application parameters, such as CGI scripts for Web elements or custom @OP parameters for XML and database applications. See “Application parameters”.

Edit properties

Edit the properties of an application any time.

Templates

Portal, PDA, BlackBerry, WAP-HTML, WAP-WML

Preview

Preview application playback, XML, and edit screen.

Figure 2-1: Mobile Web Studio





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