Component Descriptions

Primary Unwired Platform component descriptions.

Component

Description

Unwired Server

A runtime server that brokers connections and processing between your existing legacy or enterprise information system (EIS) data source and mobile device applications.

Unwired Server enables you to create and retrieve data from your existing data source. Mobile applications, based on mobile business objects (MBOs), represent the data from your legacy or EIS system. Unwired Server manages access to data using your existing security policies, and provides end-to-end security from your data source to the mobile device.

Unwired Server manages data synchronization between mobile devices and the back-end system for online and offline modes. Multiple synchronization strategies and policies are available to ensure the most efficient processing. A consolidated database, also called the cache, is used to manage transactions.

You can deploy multiple Unwired Servers in a server farm, and can manage multiple Unwired Servers in a hosted domain.

System Management
  • Sybase Control Center (SCC) console
  • Command line utilities

Sybase Control Center (SCC) 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 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 a bidirectional flow of information from within the data center boundaries to extend critical information to the mobile wireless workforce.

Command line utilities enable you to automate management tasks for certain management functions such as deploying packages.

Relay Server

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

Development Environment

Unwired WorkSpace – an Eclipse-based development environment provides the tools you need to develop mobile business objects and mobile workflows. Experienced Eclipse developers will already be familiar with the consistent use of Windows, Explorers, Views, Wizards, and Preferences; developers new to Eclipse can use Sybase Unwired WorkSpace online help, samples, and tutorials to quickly become familiar.

Unwired WorkSpace can be used to connect to enterprise data sources (such as Adaptive Server® Enterprise, DB2, SQL Server, and Oracle) and applications (such as SAP®) for mobile business object development.

Related concepts
Solution Architecture for Mobilization
Unwired Platform Architecture
Unwired Platform Features