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Product & Service Directories
- Mobile
DBMS & Application Development Integration -
Conventional development tools on various platforms (UNIX,
NT, AS/400, web servers, application servers) do not necessarily support mobile
applications on all wireless network and mobile devices, especially the new breed of PDAs
and WinCE compatible devices. It is important, therefore, to select compatible application
development platform that will support the devices that you may have in mind. Before
selecting a tool, you must answer the following questions:
- Is the enduser device supported in a development environment that is
your organization's enterprise application development standard - Microsoft, IBM, Oracle,
Sybase, etc.?
- Do we have a pre-defined DBMS architecture at the backend which will
influence our choice for mobile application servers based at the
backend
- Does the wireless network have drivers for the device operating in the specified
software environment? or Does the Mobile communications server software
(MCSS) or wireless gateway support the specific wireless network
that you intend to use e.g. Bell South's Mobitex, Motient's packet
network, CDPD, CDMA, GPRS or 3G? Would you employ multiple wireless
networks?
- Is the application architecture based on traditional client-server or more contemporary
based on a web browser, web application server and the Internet?
- Is Java development an important requirement for device and platform independence
because you are not sure which devices would you support in future ? Do you expect to
support multiple devices – Palm Pilot and Windows CE?
- Should we extend a chosen enterprise application server architecture
to wireless applications or should we select a wireless-specific
application server. Go to our Mobile Computing Application
Server page.
- Is the application based on the use of Pen, voice or non-standard
methods of input? Are drivers required for this form of input
integral part of SDK?
We shall describe products in the following categories - first client
side, then server side tools.
CLIENT
SIDE
General Wireless Mobile Devices
This
category is for those development tools which address multiple hand held
devices.
- Centurasoft.com - Centura
provides a rapid development API, SDK and deployment suite for extending
enterprise and legacy systems to wireless mobile devices.
Application Development Tools For Windows 95/2000/NT
If the mobile hardware device is supported under Windows95/2000/NT – which means a
larger footprint, faster processor and more RAM, almost any of the Windows development
tools could be used for developing user interface, application logic and any local DBMS
that your application design calls for.
Pen-based Software Development Kits
The following SDKs are representative of various pen-based development kits:
Generic Psion, Symbian and EPOC Development
Tools
Palm OS Application Development
There is a rich set of development tools for Palm Pilot from PalmOS
division of Palm, third
party vendors and independents. PalmOS itself maintains a very good web site for additional
developer resources.
There is a Palm Developers conference every year which is a must for any serious
Palm application developer. Here is a subset of the starter tools available for this platform::
- Palm
4.0 OS SDK -
official SDK from Palm Computing for version 3.0
- AppForge - allows you to develop
Palm OS applications in Microsoft Visual Basic
- CASL 3.0 - a compact application solution language
for Palm Pilot
- CBasPad - a small interpreter for
a subset of Basic
- CoPilot - emulates Palm
Pilot hardware on Windows for debugging Palm Pilot applications; now supported by Palm
Computing as a component of version 3.0 SDK
- CodeWarrior 4 - Toolkit for Pal OS applications
hosted on Macintosh and Windows 95/NT
- Debug 3.0 ROM - An
enhanced and officially-supported version of Copilot
- HanDbaseVersion 2.75
from DDH Software - users can extract data deom Windows or Macintosh PC
and sync it with their palmOS handheld devices. There is a
handheld client software and a PC/Macintosh software to achieve
this.
- JetTOP - Allows
editing (display, delete, and create new entries for the address, To-do, datebook and
memopad applications on Palm Pilot
- Jump – Java code for
Palm Pilot
- LispMe - A scheme compiler and
runtime system running on Palm Pilot
- Palm Developer Studio
- creates a framework for working applications on the Palm Pilot - intuitive
and graphical
interface
- PalmPrint - allows
printing of information from palm Pilot
- Pendragon Forms -Pilot Forms Manager
- PilotBean -Java interface
to Palm Pilot
- PocketC - Allows C applet
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P*tools
- RTAccess - provides
synchronization between PalmPilot applications and database
- Satellite Forms - a forms-based application
development environment for Palm Pilot
- SetupMAX -
installation wizards that allow creation of .PRC and .PDB files
- ViaXML - Joint product effort between AppForge
(visual basic expertise for Palm) and Odyssey
Software (Enterprise expertise for handheld) - use XML from Palm to
access enterprise data (SAP, Oracle, Siebel, Baan and PeopleSoft data in
SQLServer, DB2 and Oracle)
Windows CE & Pocket PC Application Development
Multi-platform, Multi-device, Multi-Language Globalization - Smart phone and i-Mode Application Development Tools
- AVIDRapid Tools - Java toolset
for i-Mode, WAP, HTML, Palm VII and more
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Motorola has entered into partnership with Boland® to provide its
JBuilder™ 4 Foundation development environment as part of the Motorola
iDEN® Subscriber Groups developers’ toolkit. For
more, go to news item.
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See J2ME page.
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Multilizer
Edition 5.0 - allows support for country localization, global markets -
multiple language versions of user interface - supports EPOC/Symbian and
Palm/Os platform, uses XML to achieve this
Embedded Systems and Internet Appliance Development
Tools
- BSquare's Internet Appliance Software
- Instant Messenger Software, Remote Device Updater, Remote Device Administrator,
etc.
SERVER
SIDE Tools
(offering specialized APIs and
application management for wireless and mobile applications)
-
 Afaria
is one of the leading solutions that can manage laptops, PDAs, smart
phones, RIM pagers, WinCE devices, and more. From a central
location, you can keep devices running, deploy applications, check
inventory, and provide automatic updates.
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Broadbeam Wireless Application Development
Tools e.g. ExpressQ and Smart IP as communications
middleware
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XTNDConnect Server - allows development of applications requiring DBMS
synchronization on handheld devices
- Orsus
Mobile Framework is a
comprehensive wireless infrastructure for developing, deploying and
managing mobile applications. Orsus' Mobile Framework includes the Developer
Studio, a wireless application development environment with visual
productivity tools for simplifying and accelerating development; the Orsus
Mobile Application Server, a wireless application gateway (WAG) for
reliable, scaleable deployment; and the Management Console for
the efficient management of users, devices, and runtime events.
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Synchrologic
iMobile Suite - allows development of applications requiring DBMS
synchronization on handheld devices - Client and Server modules
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Dynamic Mobile Data APIs for mobile
applications
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Oracle’s
Mobile Agents – a good application development tool within Oracle environment
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IBM’s WebSphere Mobile
Environment
- Sybase's
SQL Anywhere Studio & iAnywhere Wireless Server
Server &
Client Mobile Databases : These
databases allow storage of local copy on mobile devices in such a way that it can be
synchronized with server or desktop databases
Server
& Client - Multiple-OS Application Development & Transaction
Systems for PDAs
- XMLEdge - MobileQ's software
solution for developing applications mobile applications on handheld
devices
- eXpresso -
application development toolkit (Java and XML) for PocketPC, PalmOs, Dos
and others in future
- IBM's
MQSeries Everyplace - a lightweight version of IBM's transaction
processing middleware that runs on handheld devices
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