Application Deployment

During development the developer tests the device application by deploying it to Unwired Platform Runtime. In a production environment, device applications are provisioned using Afaria or similar third-party product.

There are four key steps to application deployment using Unwired Platform Runtime:
  1. For Object API applications or Hybrid web applications, mobile business object (MBO) packages are deployed to Unwired Server.
  2. Mobile applications are provisioned to mobile devices.

    In the development test environment, device application binaries and their dependencies are provisioned to emulators or actual devices. Deployment to devices can be achieved by physically connecting the device to the developer's machine, and copying binaries using device-supported tools.

    Device applications should also be tested in a test environment that emulates the production environment for complete end-to-end testing.

    For production scale deployment, application deployment is managed using proven products such as Afaria. Afaria offers enterprise-class device application deployment and management features.

  3. Application connections are registered with Unwired Platform using the manual or automatic method.
  4. Device users start the mobile application and initiate connection to the system.
Parent topic: Unwired Platform Runtime