Online Data Proxy is a light-weight edition of the Sybase® Unwired Platform that provides a robust mobile infrastructure for enterprise IT organizations to securely roll-out and manage the deployment of light-weight applications in a controlled and monitored approach.
The Sybase Unwired Platform runtime landscape provides common architecture used to deploy OData SDK applications using the Online Data Proxy option.
This Runtime option provides:
Runtime infrastructure that allows deployment of simple and easy-to-use application functionality to end users that includes the delivery of push notifications to mobile devices.
OData SDK applications are simple mostly online request-response style applications. These applications, that are developed using the Sybase Mobile SDK and consume Open Data Protocol, are deployed via Online Data Proxy. For information about developing OData SDK Applications, see Developer Guide: OData SDK.
The Online Data Proxy runtime landscape uses Unwired Server, Data tier, Afaria®, and Relay Server components, that are also common to the Unwired Platform Runtime option.
For BlackBerry deployment, the BlackBerry Enterprise Server (BES) becomes part of the landscape to manage secure connections with mobile devices. In this case, Relay Server is optional for handling load balancing.
See Fundamentals for additional information about these landscape components.
Secure proxy connection via back end adaptations like SAP® Gateway to existing on-premise enterprise applications (SAP or non-SAP), other application providers or custom-built applications.
OData stands for "Open Data Protocol" and is a resource-based web protocol for querying and updating data. It is released by Microsoft under the Open Specification Promise to allow anyone to freely interoperate with OData implementations. OData defines operations on resources using HTTP verbs (GET, PUT, POST, and DELETE), and it identifies those resources using a standard URI syntax. Data is transferred over HTTP using the ATOM or JSON format.Note: OData SDK 2.1.x supports data exchange only in ATOM XML format.OData for SAP Products provide SAP Extensions to the OData protocol that enable users to build user interfaces for accessing the data published via OData. The interfaces require human-readable, language-dependent labels for all properties and free-text search within collections of similar entities and across (OpenSearch).