Overview of Feature Pack for Web 2.0 and Mobile

The Feature Pack for Web 2.0 and Mobile is an optionally installable product extension for IBM® WebSphere® Application Server Version 6.x that offers targeted, incremental new features that can make your web applications running on WebSphere Application Server easier to use. With this feature pack, WebSphere Application Server applications that were originally developed for desktop browsers can now be adapted and deployed to mobile devices, such as smartphones and tablets.

This feature pack extends Service Oriented Architecture (SOA) by connecting external web services, internal SOA services, and Java Platform, Enterprise Edition (Java EE) objects into highly interactive web application interfaces. To reduce information technology (IT) costs and speed time to market, the Feature Pack for Web 2.0 and Mobile provides a supported, best-in-class Ajax development toolkit for WebSphere Application Server.

Ajax is an open technique for creating rich user experiences in web-based applications that does not require additional browser plug-ins. Ajax interfaces result in increased customer satisfaction and line of business productivity by streamlining end-user interaction with web-based applications.

New feature New feature: Feature Pack for Web 2.0 and Mobile V1.1.0.1 includes IBM ILOG® Dojo Diagrammer, which is a Dojo widget with advanced diagramming and graph layout capabilities. The purpose of Dojo Diagrammer is to provide a solution for Dojo-based applications to display and interact with graphs, such as networks of nodes connected by links. IBM ILOG Diagrammer includes the following features:newfeat
New feature New feature: Feature Pack for Web 2.0 and Mobile provides a showcase gallery, featuring the new functionality available. The showcase provides samples and demonstrations for the following features:newfeat
New feature New feature: Feature Pack for Web 2.0 and Mobile includes Mobile Application Services. New REST-based mobile and rich Internet application (RIA) building blocks are provided to simplify the creation of mobile-focused applications. The building blocks include the following features:
  • Directory listing and file upload sample applications
  • Graphics conversion service
  • Logging, debugging, and analytics capture service
  • Device and browser detection service
  • Apache Wink WebDAV extension
  • Map Generation service to create new content for the Dojo Geo Charting components
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New feature New feature:  Feature Pack for Web 2.0 and Mobile provides a Java API for developing Representational State Transfer (REST)-based services. IBM® JAX-RS provides an implementation of the JAX-RS specification. IBM JAX-RS has equivalent functionality to Apache Wink 1.1.2 and some additional extensions. By using JAX-RS technology, REST applications are easier to develop, easier to consume, and easier to scale when compared to other types of distributed systems. IBM JAX-RS includes the following features: newfeat
New feature New feature: Feature Pack for Web 2.0 and Mobile includes Dojo V1.7 features, which provide:newfeat
New feature New feature: Feature Pack for Web 2.0 and Mobile provides a Web Builder sample. Web Builder is an online solution that provides an intuitive web interface to the existing Dojo Toolkit build tools, allowing you to create customized Dojo builds using your web browser. This new tool lowers the barrier to entry for the build system, easing new users into the process of using a build tool and improving the performance of un-optimized Dojo applications everywhere. The Web Builder project includes the following features:newfeat

Feature Pack for Web 2.0 and Mobile highlights

With Ajax, the interaction model for web applications has become more robust, like desktop applications, with continuous interaction, and improved usability. Some of the benefits of adding Ajax capabilities to your applications include:
  • A more interactive, differentiated experience which can lead to longer sessions and increased customer loyalty .
  • Responsive, local actions which can result in fewer abandoned transactions, higher completion rates, and higher end-user productivity .

Unlike other rich web user interface approaches, Ajax applications use standard browser features and do not require browser plug-ins.

JAX-RS is a collection of interfaces and Java annotations that simplifies development of server-side REST applications. JAX-RS is a Java API for developing REST applications quickly. While JAX-RS provides a faster way of developing web applications than servlets, the primary goal of JAX-RS is to build RESTful services. JAX-RS 1.0 defines a server-side component API to build REST applications.

Functionality

The following new technologies in Java libraries exist:
  • Ajax proxy provided with this feature pack is a reverse proxy installed near one or more servers.
  • Web-remoting is a pattern that provides for JavaScript or a client-side to directly start server-side logic.
  • JSON4J library is an implementation of a set of JavaScript Object Notation (JSON) handling classes for use with Java environments.
  • The Web messaging service is a publish or subscribe implementation connecting the browser to the WebSphere Application Server service integration bus (SIB) for server-side event push to the browser.

Supported platforms

Prerequisite Integrated Development Environments (IDEs) include one of the following products:




Related information
IBM Education Assistant: WebSphere® Application Server Feature Pack for Web 2.0
Building Dynamic Ajax Applications Using WebSphere Feature Pack for Web 2.0
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