Mobile and Multi-Channel Development with IBM Web Experience Factory  |
This article provides an overview and references to information related to developing Smart Phone and Mobile Device web applications with IBM Web Experience Factory (formerly called WebSphere Portlet Factory). |
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Organizations are faced with a need to move applications rapidly to the exploding smartphone and mobile device market, but building native applications with multiple device SDKs is very costly and time-consuming. Modern smartphone and tablet browsers have very good support for a rich user experience that can have a native look and feel across various smartphone vendors' devices, using web technologies such as HTML5, CSS, and JavaScript. IT organizations are looking for a tooling/framework answer for smartphone and mobile application development.
Web Experience Factory's automated tools for web application development are uniquely suited for mobile web application development.
- Automate the creation of smartphone-optimized applications, reducing or eliminating coding and speeding time to market
- Support your multi-channel strategy. Create once and run on multiple devices (iPhone, Blackberry, Android, iPad, etc.) in addition to PC browsers.
- Leverage all the Portlet Factory out-of-the-box features for quickly building exceptional web experiences
- Create native-looking smartphone applications using standard technologies (HTML, CSS, Javascript)
- Leverage HTML5 for features such as geolocation and offline support
When you run a Web Experience Factory (WEF) model standalone, it is running as a standalone servlet based web application that owns the entire browser page. When you run a WEF model as a portlet in portal, it's only providing the portlet's portion of the portal page markup. The portal provides the rest (the actual outer page that the browser loads), so it will take more screen real estate than desired if you're not using a portal theme that was designed for mobile devices. The resources section below provides links to portal themes targeted at mobile devices, available from the portal catalog,
Creating Mobile Web Applications video. When customers hit your website on their smart phones or tablets, they expect an easy to use experience that is optimized for their device. This demonstration shows how the WebSphere Portlet Factory toolset within IBM Customer Experience Suite makes it fast and easy to create native-looking mobile applications that are tailored for the leading smart devices.
Creating a multi-channel web application in 13 minutes video. This video shows how you can use the WebSphere Portlet Factory Next Beta to easily build a mobile-enabled web application that accesses a database. Watch how the application can be built from scratch in a matter of minutes.
Show and Tell slides from the 2012 Lotusphere conference, showing a step-by-step guide for setting up a Web Experience Factory development environment and building a mobile/multi-channel application.
WebSphere Portal mobile theme for WP7.0.0.x:
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