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MobileFirst Server

The server side of your mobile app is MobileFirst Server. MobileFirst Server gives you access to features like application management and application security, as well giving your mobile app secure access to our other backend systems through adapters.

MobileFirst Server is the core component that delivers many IBM MobileFirstâ„¢ Platform Foundation features, including the following features:

We need to use MobileFirst Server throughout your app's lifecycle from development and test through to production deployment and maintenance. A preconfigured server is available for you to use when you develop your app. For information about the MobileFirst Development Server to use when you develop your app, see Set up the MobileFirst Development Server.

MobileFirst Server consists of the following components. All of these components are also included in the MobileFirst Development Server. In simple cases, they are running on the same application server, but in a production or test environment, the components can be run on different application servers. For information about possible topologies for these MobileFirst Server components, see Topologies and network flows.

After you install and configure MobileFirst Server into the topology that we want, any further configuration of MobileFirst Server and its applications can be done entirely through any of the following methods:

After the initial installation and configuration, you do not need to access any application server console or interface to configure IBM MobileFirst Platform Foundation.

When we deploy your app to production, we can deploy your app to the following MobileFirst Server production environments:

Parent topic: Development concepts and overview