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Create Mobile Applications with IBM Forms for Mobile Devices
The power of Web forms has brought no-code solutions to data management applications. Find out how a new preview technology from IBM alphaWorks helps you extend data management apps into the mobile arena.
by Ray Rischpater
April 7, 2005
he combination of a database, Web server, browser, and scripting language is a powerful one when it comes to application development. Increasingly, this can be done without code; unfortunately, to date these types of tools have been challenged when reaching pervasive mobile devices because they lack continuous network coverage. IBM alphaWorks' IBM Forms for Mobile Devices brings the same power to mobile devices with intermittent network access by replacing the browser with a Java MIDP application that reads forms defined using the XForms standard, and enables you to create custom applications without writing any code.
The IBM Forms for Mobile Devices solution is a preview technology from IBM alphaWorks. It permits mobile Java-enabled devices, such as the Palm Computing Tungsten series, to access forms provided by a remote server via a local cache. It stores the results entered into the forms until they regain access to the network. The forms themselves are developed using a set of wizards in Eclipse. These forms are represented as XForms documents presented to the mobile devices, bringing the power of an open standard to bear on the problem of disseminating mobile forms. The overall architecture leverages the model-view-controller pattern, using XForms and the notion of a form instance as the form's model.
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he combination of a database, Web server, browser, and scripting language is a powerful one when it comes to application development. Increasingly, this can be done without code; unfortunately, to date these types of tools have been challenged when reaching pervasive mobile devices because they lack continuous network coverage. IBM alphaWorks' IBM Forms for Mobile Devices brings the same power to mobile devices with intermittent network access by replacing the browser with a Java MIDP application that reads forms defined using the XForms standard, and enables you to create custom applications without writing any code.
