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Integrate with IBM Worklight

We can integrate WebSphere Portal with Worklight to provide multi-channel support to the web communities. We can create a hybrid application that adds native device functions and a unified web experience on mobile device browsers and in mobile device native applications. Use Worklight to create a hybrid application that adds native device functions to the portal.

There are three types of applications we can create for the cross-platform environments with WebSphere Portal and Worklight.

    Native applications
    Native applications for enterprise mobile apps have the highest UI fidelity and range of function of the types of web applications included here, but have the highest cost to develop and maintain. Cross-platform issues can increase costs, and mobile operating system updates can require frequent updates to be submitted in application stores. Worklight provides tool to reduce costs.

    Pure web applications
    Pure web applications based on HTML5, CSS3 and JavaScript, or that use client-side frameworks like Dojo and jQuery, provide a simple way to make mobile-friendly websites. Development and maintenance costs are less expensive. We can work more easily across multiple devices and are not typically impacted by mobile operating system updates. WebSphere Portal provides a platform for pure web applications and websites. With a pure web application, you only have access to the native device features the browser provides to you, and we are more limited in the user interface fidelity.

    Hybrid applications
    Hybrid applications combine the characteristics of pure and native applications. We can build an application with the simplicity of developing with HTML/CSS/JavaScript. But we can augment that with a wide range of native services and produce an application for application stores. With technology like Apache Cordova, which Worklight includes, we can call native features with JavaScript from the web markup. For example, we can call the camera with a simple JavaScript line, such as: navigator.camera.getPicture. Worklight provides tools for creating these hybrid applications. Hybrid applications are native applications that wrap the WebSphere Portal web application. The two are tightly integrated to use each other's capabilities to make the development experience as quick and easy as possible.

As a WebSphere Portal customer use the Worklight tools for free and create two free applications. But the applications must be hybrid applications that use WebSphere Portal.


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