The Feature Pack for Web 2.0 and Mobile is an optionally
installable product extension for IBM® WebSphere® Application Server Version 8. 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.
- Feature Pack for Web 2.0 and Mobile V1.1.0 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:
- Create graph displays by code or from data in a Dojo data store
- Lay out the nodes and links automatically with graph layout algorithms (Tree, Hierarchical,
Force Directed, Circular, Grid Layout, and Link routing)
- Graph Layout can be started on the client or on the server through a Graph Layout REST
service
- Ability to customize the appearance of nodes and links through styling and templating
- Graph editing features
- Support Web and Mobile deployment
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Dojo is supported through Dojo 1.10. Dojo 1.11 and later are not
supported.
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- Feature Pack for Web 2.0 and Mobile provides a showcase gallery,
featuring the new functionality available. The showcase provides samples
and demos for the following features:
- Dojo 1.9 mobile, including widgets, views, charts, gauges, animations,
maps, and model-view-controller forms
- Application services demonstrating a file uploader service with
the Dojo FileUploader support, directory listing service, and other
services
- IBM ILOG Dojo Diagrammer featuring graphs, node
layouts, and other visual diagrams
- 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
- 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:
- Browse catalog of every module in Dojo, Dijit, and DojoX, using
text searching to quickly filter the results
- Automatically generate custom Dojo builds using the remote service
- Auto-analyze existing Dojo applications to discover module dependencies
- Customize builds further in advanced mode
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.
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:
- AIX®
- HP-UX
- IBM i
- Linux
- Solaris
- Windows
- z/OS®
Prerequisite Integrated Development Environments (IDEs)
include one of the following products: