Sun Enterprise Mobility Blog

Santiago has written a blog  that provides details including a screencast of the Mobility Platform telematics demo that was shown recently at Oracle OpenWorld 2009.

The demo shows a simulation of vehicles synchronizing events collected on a local database (BDB) to a back-end Oracle database. Events collected from vehicle sensors are stored in an embedded BDB database and periodically synchronized; in addition, critical events are reported immediately using the dynamic capabilities of the Mobility Platform. A JavaFX front-end was developed to increase the demo's coolness factor.

Here is the architecture of the solution:

Please contact us at mep-feedback@sun.com if you would like to get more details including an early access version of the latest Mobility Platform software for evaluation.

There will a demonstration of a telematics usecase  that uses Sun's Mobility Platform and Oracle's embedded Berkeley DB-Java Edition and Oracle 11g DB during Oracle OpenWorld in San Francisco. Here are the details of when and where it will be shown.

Meeting Name:             BDB Demo Session
Meeting Date:             Monday, October 12, 2009 
Meeting Time:             11:00 a.m. - 1:00 p.m. 
Meeting Location:         Hilton Hotel - Union Square 
                          Room 6, 4th Fl
                          San Francisco, USA

This usecase will demonstrate an embedded telematics application used in a vehicle to collect data from the vehicle sensors and store them locally on a Bekeley DB as well as synchronizing them on a Oracle DB repository on the enterprise using the GlassFish Mobility Platform. It also flags critical events and responses so that any problems can be quickly identified.

I would like to invite all those going to Oracle OpenWorld to attend this session and view the demo. Please contact us at  mep-feedback@sun.com if you would like to get more details including an early access version of the latest Mobility Platform software for evaluation.

Santiago and Ryan have written blogs providing more information on the new features in the GlassFish Mobility Platform.

Santiago has a blog describing how to run the GlassFish Mobility Platform on GlassFish ESB and connect to backends using JAX-WS connectors.

Ryan has a blog describing the Java SE client support in the GlassFish Mobility Platform.

Santiago also has a blog on  Android client support in  the GlassFish Mobility Platform

If you are interested in trying out these new features and providing feedback, please contact us at  mep-feedback@sun.com  and we can provide you an early access release of the Mobility Platform for a limited evaluation period.

The Mobility Platform team has been working on a number of new features and enhancements since the release of GlassFish Mobility Platform v1.1 in February 2009.

Here are the key additions to the GlassFish Mobility Platform since V1.1:

• Support for Java SE and Android clients
• Support for JAX-WS connectors  
• Enable integration with GlassFish ESB and Java FX Mobile
• Adding Weblogic Application Server as a supported Application Server platform
  

Stay tuned for more details about the features above from the engineers on the team who will be blogging on these in the coming days.

We have completed development work on these features. So, if you are interested in trying out these new features and providing feedback, please contact us at  mep-feedback@sun.com  and we can provide an early access release of the Mobility Platform for a limited evaluation period.

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We have a number of activities showcasing  the GlassFish Mobility Platform at JavaOne 2009   from June 2- 5 , 2009.

Hans Hrasna and Satish Hemachandran from Sun will present a technical session  TS-4877 titled "Sun GlassFish™ Mobility Platform" on Wed, June 3.

Hans Hrasna (along with Rebecca Searls)  will also be presenting  a course " Developing and Deploying Mobile Enterprise Solutions Using Sun Glassfish Mobility Platform (SGMP)"  at  the  Java University  on Sunday, May 31st.

Finally, we have a pod for the Mobility Platform in the JavaOne Pavilion where you can see demos of the Mobility Platform in action and get to know more about the Mobility Platform.

So, if you are going to be at JavaOne 2009, we invite you to attend all these activities and engage with our team to understand how the Mobility Platform can help your company mobilize your enterprise applications.

In his  blog, Rajiv Konkimalla from ITDistributors, a Sun Partner, describes  how he developed a mobility solution using the GlassFish Mobility Platform to synchronizes data between a mobile device and Twitter. He connected to the Twitter service by building  a RESTful Web Services based connector that synchronizes information between Twitter and a mobile device.

Joe Wang describes how he developed a mobile client application using the Mobility Platform APIs and the LWUIT UI librarry  in his blog. This application allows a mobile user to retrieve data from a Salesforce.com account.

We have developed a number of demo applications to showcase the various use cases of the Mobility Platform. In this blog/screencast, Ryan provides a walkthrough of a Case Management mobility solution that uses the GlassFish Mobility Platform v1.1 and connects to a Remedy Action Request System (ARS) from BMC.  Please contact us if you would like to get more info regarding this.

The Sun GlassFish Mobility Platform has a provisioning server that enables users to do over the air provisioning ( OTA) of the Mobility Platform clients on to mobile devices. Hans describes how to provision clients on to Blackberry phones using GlassFish Mobility Platform v1.1.

In this blog/webcast, Ryan describes how the Salesforce mobile client  that was developed by a partner for the GlassFish Mobility Platform works. As Ryan mentions in his blog, this client works in concert with the Salesforce connector that was described by Rebecca in her blogs.

 There is a Salesforce sample app - along with the sources - similar to the one described by Ryan available in the client bundle of in the Mobility Platform 1.1 release. We encourage you to try it out and contact us if you have any questions or want to get more details.

Santiago Pericas-Geertsen describes  how to develop JAX-RS connectors  and deploy JAX-RS connectors in the GlassFish Mobility Platform 1.1.

Rebecca Searls describes how to use a JAX-RS connector to mobilize a web service in the following 3 blogs

http://blogs.sun.com/searls/entry/mobilizing_a_webservice_using_jax

http://blogs.sun.com/searls/entry/mobilizing_a_web_service_using

http://blogs.sun.com/searls/entry/mobilizing_a_web_service_using1

Ryan Shoemaker introduces Sun GlassFish Mobility Platform 1.1: http://weblogs.java.net/blog/ryan_shoemaker/archive/2009/02/introducing_sun.html

Ryan Shoemaker describes the security features of Sun GlassFish Mobility Platform 1.1:
http://weblogs.java.net/blog/ryan_shoemaker/archive/2009/02/developing_mep.html

We are happy to announce the general availability of Sun GlassFish™ Mobility Platform 1.1. This is an update release to the Mobile Enterprise Platform 1.0 release and contains a number of new features and many improvements.

Sun GlassFish Mobility Platform is a horizontal mobility platform based on open industry standards and enterprise Java technologies that enables mobile devices to access information systems and content. Sun GlassFish Mobility Platform integrates advanced synchronization capabilities and handles dynamic data with flexibility, security, and ease of maintenance on a single platform.

Highlights

• Provides end-to-end security from the mobile device to the back-end server
• Enables real-time data synchronization, dynamic data updates, and offline data access
• Simplifies design and development efforts by being device and service-provider agnostic
• Reduces development costs and time to market by providing outof-the-box connectivity to many enterprise systems
• Reduces support costs by providing over-the-air provisioning capabilities
• Is based on open industry standards and proven enterprise Java technologies

Standard use cases for GlassFish Mobility Platform include field service, logistics, and sales force automation, allowing the mobile workforce to connect easily and securely to many enterprise applications. GlassFish Mobility Platform can operate in an Occasionally Connected Computing (OCC) environment, using client caching to allow mobile workers to access and update their data, even when they are off the network.

Key features of GlassFish Mobility Platform 1.1

• Out-of-the-box connectivity to many enterprise application platforms
• Support for a wide variety of mobile devices
• Offline access to data when there is no network coverage
• Encryption and data fading/wiping, which extend enterprise application security to mobile devices
• Support for over-the-air provisioning of mobile clients
• Tools and templates that simplify the development and customization of mobile applications

Architecture Diagram of Sun GlassFish Mobility Platform 1.1 components

New features of GlassFish Mobility Platform 1.1

• Support for JAX-RS based connectors
• JerseyME: JAX-RS client library for CLDC
• Support for Dynamic parameters
• Blackberry/Palm WM6 OTA client provisioning
• Improved GlassFish cluster support and logging
• Maven Archetypes for ease of development
• 508 compliant
• Salesforce Sample
  

We invite you to download the Sun GlassFish Mobility Platform for a free evaluation at  http://www.sun.com/software/products/mep/get.jsp. You can also sign up for a Proof-of-Concept (POC), or subscribe to a full service plan, where  Sun and our partners will provide the expertise to deploy GlassFish Mobility Platform in your production environment.

For additional information, go to the GlassFish Mobility Platform product page and the GlassFish Mobility Platform documentation.

Stay tuned for more blogs from the Sun GlassFish Mobility Platform team, with a deep-dive into GlassFish Mobility Platform features, configuration, and use cases as well as benefits to the customer, in the coming days and weeks.

Santiago Pericas-Geertsen has updated his blog with two more entries on developing MEP connectors: one on implementing the BusinessObjectProvider class and one on using NetBeans 6.1 and Maven for MEP development.

We're making good progress with MEP and garnering much interest from customers. We have an opening in our group to work on MEP client development and tooling, and we would like to invite qualified candidates to apply for this position. For details on the job opening, go to http://www.sun.com/corp_emp/search.cgi?req=560860.

We hope to hear from many of you soon.

Ryan Shoemaker of the MEP development team provides more detail on developing MEP client applications.

Santiago Pericas-Geertsen, who created the Enterprise Connector Business Objects (ECBO) API, provides an introduction to MEP Enterprise Connector development in two parts: Part One and Part Two.

Ryan Shoemaker, who created the Mobile Client Business Object (MCBO) API, provides a short introduction to developing mobile client applications for MEP.