If you purchased M-Business Anywhere Application Edition with M-Business XML conduit, you have access to the M-Business XML API, which enables you to present server-side database information on M-Business Client. The M-Business XML API works in conjunction with the M-Business XML conduit to send data to mobile devices and to report changes in the data back to the originating database server through M-Business Client's standard form submission mechanism. The M-Business XML API relies on XML-based standards, including XML-formatted DBMS response and W3C-approved XML, Schema 1.0-compliant schema documents for describing databases.

The client-side PODS component presents an on-device database API that allows you to manipulate the data that the server conduit delivers to the mobile device through a JavaScript or PODS interface. This API is derived from the Microsoft ActiveX Data Objects (ADO) API, and thus should be familiar to many application developers. For example, you could write a Web page containing JavaScript that iterates a database containing products from a merchandise catalog. The script would dynamically generate a page on the device that lists the available products. This makes it much easier for you to write an application that maintains a separation between the application's data (residing in the device database), the application's presentation layer (HTML), and the application's business logic (JavaScript). See M-Business XML API Reference.