Before Deploying Mobile Applications

This topic describes the steps you must perform before Deploying Mobile Applications.

BlackBerry and M-Business simulators

If the BlackBerry, or the M-Business test client software has been installed before Sybase WorkSpace, you can access them by selecting Run|External Tools, and the corresponding simulator:

M-Business Client
BlackBerry MDS Simulator
BlackBerry Device Simulator

Shutting down the simulators

If you do not shut down the simulators prior to closing Sybase WorkSpace:

The M-Business simulator closes with Sybase WorkSpace.
The BlackBerry simulator does not close. Eclipse displays a warning message that it will terminate the external process, and Sybase WorkSpace shuts down. You can safely ignore the warning message.

Before you deploy to BlackBerry devices

You can view mobile applications in either:

Offline Mode – the mobile application has been created, and the Mobile Option set to "Offline."
Online Mode – the mobile application has been created and packaged in a page and page group, as well as updated.

For both options, the Unwired Accelerator Client must be installed on the BlackBerry device. You must:

Install the BlackBerry Server software (or simulator) on the server, and install the Unwired Accelerator Client software on the BlackBerry device (or simulator), and create Unwired Accelerator user accounts for the Unwired Accelerator Client. See Chapter 2, "Post-installation Tasks" of the Unwired Accelerator 8.0 Installation Guide for instructions. Some of this information is also in the Chapter 4, "User Accounts," of the Unwired Accelerator Administration Guide.

You can view these guides from the Sybase WorkSpace bookshelf.