Unwired Platform Components

The Unwired Platform configuration includes several major components.

Unwired Platform Components
Unwired Platform components include:

Component

Description

Sybase Unwired WorkSpace Eclipse Edition

Sybase Unwired WorkSpace Visual Studio Edition

Two development environments are available:
  • Unwired WorkSpace Eclipse Edition – works like a plug-in to your Eclipse development environment, providing the tools you need to create mobile applications. Experienced Eclipse developers will already be familiar with Eclipse Edition's consistent use of Windows, Explorers, Views, Wizards, and Preferences; developers new to Eclipse can use Sybase Unwired WorkSpace online help, cheat sheets, samples, and tutorials to quickly become familiar.
  • Visual Studio Edition – works like an addin to your Microsoft Visual Studio development environment, providing the tools you need to create mobile applications. Experienced Microsoft Visual Studio developers will already be familiar with Visual Studio Edition's consistent use of Windows, Explorers, Views, Wizards, and Preferences; developers new to Microsoft Visual Studio can use Sybase Unwired WorkSpace online help, samples, and tutorials to quickly become familiar.

The Eclipse and Visual Studio editions can be used to extend enterprise data sources (such as Adaptive Server Enterprise, DB2, SQL Server, and Oracle) and applications (such as SAP and Remedy) to mobile applications. They can be installed on the same Windows machine, or on different machines.

Sybase Control Center

Sybase Control Center (SCC) for Unwired Server is a Web-based console used to configure and manage Unwired Server and its components. Because it is a Web console, multiple administrators can access different administrable components from a single access point.

Sybase Control Center currently provides Unwired Server an integrated set of management and configuration capabilities for servers, server logs, package deployment, subscriptions, roles, and users. Once an Unwired Server and its features are configured for your mobile ecosystem, this consolidated management interface allows you to have a bidirectional flow of information from within the data center boundaries to extend critical information to the mobile wireless workforce.

Unwired Server

The runtime server handles enterprise data source and application access, communications between the back-end data source and the mobile device, security, transaction processing, and scheduling. Multiple Unwired Servers can be deployed in a server farm.

Relay Server

A relay server forwards client requests to a cluster of servers—Unwired Server or Afaria. A relay server is implemented as a pair of Web extensions that run in a Web server. Relay servers run in the DMZ.

Afaria

(Optional) product used to manage upload and download of files to Afaria clients.

Related concepts
Solution Architecture for Mobilization
Unwired Platform Features


Created September 17, 2009. Send feedback on this help topic to Sybase Technical Publications: pubs@sybase.com