To install IBM® Mobile Portal Accelerator components,
you will need to follow the instructions provided in this section.
In addition to information about installing the Mobile Portal Accelerator runtime
components, this section provides information about other products
that work with and are prerequisites for Mobile Portal Accelerator.
Prior to installing
Before using this information,
review the readme additions file (readme_additions.html,
located on the IBM Mobile Portal Accelerator
Disc 1 of 2) and Mobile Portal Accelerator Technotes
for any updates to this installation information. Technotes can be
found at the Mobile Portal Accelerator support site.
Overview
Mobile Portal Accelerator includes
several components:
- Multi-Channel Server version 6.3.1
- Media Access Proxy,
an optional component of IBM Mobile Portal Accelerator
- Mobile Portal Accelerator extensions
- XML device-independent markup extensions (XDIME) aggregator
- Manage Mobile Pages portlet, Extended Properties portlet, Preload
Notice portlet
- Preload notice support
- XDIME sample portlets
- Struts tag library and sample Struts portlets
Mobile Portal Accelerator works
with prerequisite products that you install and configure to suit
your specific business requirements. These prerequisite products include
an operating platform, a database, an application server, and the WebSphere® Portal product.
For a list of supported products, refer to the topic Software
requirements.
For detailed information about prerequisites,
additional requirements, and descriptions of pre-installation tasks,
see the Planning section of this information center.
For
detailed planning and installation information, see the WebSphere Portal product documentation and
the WebSphere Portal website.
For
information about planning and installing a database, refer to the
documentation in this information center for your database type (DB2,
Oracle, or Microsoft SQL Server). For DB2, the DB2 Database for your
operating system's product documentation also
contains detailed planning and installation information. The DB2 and WebSphere Portal information
centers contain the latest information.
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