Developing BlackBerry Applications

Provides information about using advanced Sybase® Unwired Platform features to create applications for RIM BlackBerry devices. The audience is advanced developers who are familiar working with APIs, but who may be new to Sybase Unwired Platform.

Using Online Data Proxy, you can connect a device to an OData-based back-end system. All Online Data Proxy client libraries provide secure communication to the SUP server in addition to parsing, caching, persistence, connectivity, supportability and secure storage.

Describes requirements for developing a device application for the platform. Also included are task flows for the development options, procedures for setting up the development environment and API references.

  1. Configuring the BlackBerry Developer Environment
    This section describes how to set up your BlackBerry development environment and provides the location of required JAR files and COD files.
  2. Creating Projects and Adding Libraries into the BlackBerry Development Environment
    Set up the BlackBerry project and add required libraries. Use these procedures if you are developing a device application using the BlackBerry JDE or the BlackBerry Java plug-in for Eclipse.
  3. Online Data Proxy BlackBerry API JAR File Locations
    The Online Data Proxy JAR files and dependencies are installed in the Sybase Unwired Platform installation directory. JAR files are used for compilation and COD files for runtime. Make sure the COD files are deployed to the simulator/device with the device application.
  4. Developing Applications in the BlackBerry Development Environment
    To learn more about the BlackBerry JDE, BlackBerry Java plug-in for Eclipse, or RIM BlackBerry APIs, go to the BlackBerry Java application development Web site at http://na.blackberry.com/eng/developers/javaappdev
  5. OData SDK Components and APIs
    The OData SDK for BlackBerry provides the means to easily build an application which relies on the OData protocol and its additions made by SAP.
  6. Deploying Applications to Devices
    This section describes how to deploy customized mobile applications to devices.