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Sun GlassFish Mobility Platform
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General QuestionsQ: What is Sun GlassFish Mobility Platform?
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GlassFish Mobility Platform is a horizontal mobility platform with a broad range of applications. Based on open industry standards and enterprise Java technologies, it enables mobile devices to access information systems and content. Glassfish Mobility Platform integrates advanced synchronization capabilities and dynamic data access with flexibility, security, and device management on a single platform.
Q: Who can benefit from GlassFish Mobility Platform?
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With GlassFish Mobility Platform, businesses can enable a mobile workforce, mobile providers can offer enterprise application services to their customers, and system integrators and mobile solution providers can develop standard or tailored field service applications. Additionally, mobile application and entertainment developers can enjoy faster time to market and lower development and support costs when they build their mobile consumer applications using GlassFish Mobility Platform.
Q: Why should a company use GlassFish Mobility Platform to develop mobile applications?
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GlassFish Mobility Platform reduces the time to develop and deploy mobile applications that provide access to corporate information systems and databases. By providing a set of simple client and enterprise connector abstraction APIs, GlassFish Mobility Platform simplifies the building of an end-to-end data solution. GlassFish Mobility Platform also provides security features, supports device management, and includes out-of-the-box connectivity for many of the most common enterprise information systems and databases.
Q: What are the main features of GlassFish Mobility Platform?
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Q: What are the advantages of GlassFish Mobility Platform over similar platforms?
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GlassFish Mobility Platform is an open platform that is based on proven Java technologies and has a lower total cost of ownership. On the client side, you do not need to develop a separate client application for each mobile device and each mobile OS because GlassFish Mobility Platform is based on Java ME and therefore is device agnostic. On the server side, GlassFish Mobility Platform includes Sun JCA Adapters for a variety of enterprise information systems and databases. These features accelerate application development and reduce costs. Moreover, Sun is a global company with presence in 5 continents; this is an important factor to consider when selecting a company that can support your enterprise company's mobile workforce worldwide.
Q: What are the main security features of GlassFish Mobility Platform?
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GlassFish Mobility Platform provides end-to-end security from the mobile device to the backend server. All transactions between the mobile device and the backend server are secured. The data stored on the mobile devices can be encrypted and, if a mobile device is lost or stolen, data on it can be wiped out and the device itself can be locked out remotely to prevent sensitive information from being compromised.
Q: How can mobile service providers benefit from GlassFish Mobility Platform?
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As part of their wireless plans, mobile service providers can use GlassFish Mobility Platform to offer access to corporate enterprise information systems, as they do today for corporate email and calendars.
Q: Can I begin experimenting with GlassFish Mobility Platform?
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Absolutely! Go to the "Get It" tab, download it, and see how it works.
Technical QuestionsQ: Which enterprise information systems does GlassFish Mobility Platform currently support?
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GlassFish Mobility Platform currently supports several enterprise information systems such as Siebel and SAP as well as most databases, including Oracle and MySQL.
Q: Can GlassFish Mobility Platform be used to access relational database management systems directly?
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Yes! GlassFish Mobility Platform can use JDBC or Sun JCA Adapters to access relational database management systems.
Q: What mobile operating systems are currently supported?
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GlassFish Mobility Platform can be deployed on any mobile device with a JVM supporting CDC 1.1.2, CLDC 1.1, and MIDP 2.0. GlassFish Mobility Platform has been tested on BlackBerry devices and Palm Treo devices that run Palm OS and Windows Mobile.
Q: What are the new features of GlassFish Mobility Platform 1.1?
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New features of GlassFish Mobility Platform 1.1 include:
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