IBM MobileFirst and Worklight is much more than just simple app developnent.

Managing apps in an enterprise, small as well as large, in these BYOD times, is a big issue.

Enabling Mobile Apps with IBM Worklight Application Center is a great RedPiece from IBM which not only documents the functionality of the App Center, but also describes its relationship to the IBM Endpoint Manager Application Center. A must read.

See the TOC further down in this post.

See here for more information about the IBM Endpoint Manager for Mobile Devices and here:IBM Software Data Sheet IBM Endpoint Manager for
Mobile Devices A unified platform for managing mobile devices together with your traditional endpoints

 

 

Enabling Mobile Apps with IBM Worklight Application Center
3.1.8 Viewing application feedback . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 60
3.2 The mobile client . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 62
3.2.1 Preparing to use the mobile client. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 62
3.2.2 Installing the mobile client on a device . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 65
3.2.3 Views in the mobile client . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 67
3.2.4 Installing an application by using the mobile client . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 70
3.2.5 Rating an application . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 71
3.2.6 Updating an installed application . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 71
3.2.7 Reverting an installed application . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 71
3.2.8 Removing an installed application. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 72
3.2.9 Advanced information for Blackberry users . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 73
3.2.10 Calling the rating feature from another IBM Worklight application . . . . . . . . . . . 73
3.3 Adding Worklight applications to the Application Center. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 74
3.3.1 Using the command-line tool for uploading an application . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 74
3.3.2 Publishing Worklight applications from Worklight Studio . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 77
3.4 Managing users with LDAP . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 78
3.4.1 Configuring LDAP for WebSphere Application Server V8.5 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 78
3.4.2 Configuring LDAP for WebSphere Application Server V8.0 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 84
3.4.3 Configuring LDAP for WebSphere Application Server V7. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 84
3.4.4 Configuring LDAP for Liberty Profile . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 84
3.4.5 Configuring LDAP for Apache Tomcat . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 84
Chapter 4. Application Center and Endpoint Manager for Mobile Devices . . . . . . . . . 85
4.1 Introduction to IBM Endpoint Manager . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 86
4.1.1 Architecture . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 87
4.1.2 Enterprise App Management . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 87
4.2 IBM Endpoint Manager Enterprise App Management. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 89
4.2.1 Centralized mobile application recommendations. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 89
4.2.2 App distribution based on enterprise profile . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 89
4.2.3 Security focused app distribution . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 89
4.3 IBM Worklight Application Center . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 91
4.3.1 Distributing applications in test to the extended team for feedback . . . . . . . . . . . 91
4.3.2 Hosting of internal production applications . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 91
4.3.3 Development managed permissions. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 91
4.4 Integrating Worklight Application Center with IBM Endpoint Manager Application Center 92