Web 2.0 and Mobile Blog

The Web 2.0 and Mobile Feature Pack adds a significant amount of functionality. A showcase sample is available for you to see some of the new features available. First, there are mobile specific demos which feature the new Dojo mobile widgets. Whether it be buttons, switches, views with headings and tab bars, or transitions, dojox.mobile enables you to build great apps for your mobile devices. Also, you may want to use the latest Dojo model view... [More]

  I'mpleased to announce that the WebSphere Application Server Feature Pack for Web2.0 and Mobile V1.1.0 is now available! Enterprise developers face many challengeswhen they want to create mobile applications. If they decide to build nativeapplications, they need to create a different version for each type of mobilephone or tablet, using different development kits and programming languages.Then they need to post on each application store and... [More]

  Welcome to the Web 2.0 and Mobile Development Community! The information provided in this group is intended to help software developers and others involved in software delivery to stay informed on the latest news, blog posts, and articles discussing Web 2.0 and mobile related technologies. This community has been formed by the very same developers who have brought you the IBM WebSphere Application Server Web 2.0 and Mobile Feature Pack... [More]

HERE is the video from the May 18, 2011 Global WebSphere Community Lab Chat hosted by Greg Truty titled "How is Mobile Computing Affecting Your Enterprise Strategy?"  : http://www.websphereusergroup.org/corgi/go/gallery/item/1419691?pref_tab=videos&type=video It's on the Global WebSphere Community site (login required)

Live webinar. Date: Thursday, July 14th, 2011with live Q&A, Registertoday ! Time: 11:00am EDT*/8:00 amPDT/15:00 UTC Speaker: Todd Kaplinger, Web2.0 and Mobile Release Architect, IBM Many of today’s applications must notonly run on the desktop and a Web browser but, increasingly, on smartphones and tablets as well. Software developers now are faced withthe challenge of adapting their apps to these mobile devices. This presentation looks at... [More]

The Web 2.0 and Mobile Feature Pack for WebSphere ships the latest version of dojo .  One of the new technologies in dojo is dojox.socket .  Dojo 1.6 introduces a new API for Comet-style real-time communication based on the WebSocket API. WebSocket provides a bi-directional connection to servers that is ideal for pushing messages from a server to a client in real-time. Dojo’s new dojox.socket module provides access to this API with automated... [More]

  Karl Bishop, IBM Senior Software Engineer with IBM Web Enablement and Support, answers the question: " How does the Feature Pack help the client communicate with the server?" Visitus here for full list of videos.

Edward Chatelain, IBM Software Engineer, Web 2.0 and Mobile Feature Pack, answers the question: " Will I need to create different versions of my app for each mobile device?" Visitus here for full list of videos.

 In a previous article titled Mobile Apps and the Web , I talked about how there are various approaches to Mobile: Mobile Web Hybrid Apps Native Apps The Web 2.0 and Mobile Feature Pack gives you the components needed to build a Mobile Web Solution.  However, as I discussed, there are cases when you need Hybrid solutions.  Examples of requirements are: App Store Deployment. Access to Native Features like the Camera or contact list. Offline... [More]

  Edward Chatelain, IBM Software Engineer, Web 2.0 and Mobile Feature Pack, answers the question: " How much reuse can there be between my existing desktop and new mobile app?" Visitus here for full list of videos.

  Edward Chatelain, IBM Software Engineer, Web 2.0 and Mobile Feature Pack, answers the question: " Can a mobile web application really feel like a true native one?" Visitus here for full list of videos.

Many types of complex business data can best be visualized as a set of nodes and interconnecting links, more commonly called a graph or a diagram. Examples of graphs include business organization charts, workflow diagrams, telecom network displays, and genealogical trees. The mathematical concept of graphs is so general that it is used as a modeling tool in almost any domain. When we need to get a visual understanding of the graph data, there is... [More]

Veryearly on while developing one of the Web 2.0 & Mobile servicessamples, I got a quick lesson on web security. Cesar, a colleague ofmine at the time, decided to run the IBM Rational AppScan toolagainst my service & sample.  He very quickly found severalcross-site scripting vulnerabilities built into the service itself. Who was to know that echo'ing values back to the user (somethingusually considered helpful in app dev), would prove... [More]

 Ian Tewksbury, IBM Software Engineerwith the Rational Application Developer Web Tools team, answers thequestion: " How can developers test their mobile apps?" Visitus here for full list of videos.