Ibm Lotus Domino And Blackberry Applications

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IBM Lotus Domino and BlackBerry Applications
An Overview for Effectively Creating BlackBerry Applications that Interact with Domino Databases.

IBM Lotus Domino and BlackBerry Applications
Table of Contents

Part 1: Introduction to Mobile Applications and the BlackBerry Enterprise Solution
Executive Summary The BlackBerry Mobile Data System Application and DeviceManagement Information Security Rapid Development and Implementation 1 2 2 3 3

Part 2: BlackBerry Development Options
Building Web-Enabled Domino Databases for the BlackBerry Browser Building Applications using BlackBerry MDS Studio Building Applications using the BlackBerry JDE 4-5 6 7

Part 3: Example Application: Discussion Forum Template
Example Application: Discussion Forum Template FormsViews Agents Download the BlackBerry Discussion Forum Sample Code Summary Additional Resources References 8 8-9 9 10 10 11 11 11

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IBM Lotus Domino and BlackBerry Applications
An Overview for Effectively Creating BlackBerry Applications that Interact with Domino Databases
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Executive Summary
Only 18 percent of the world’s 50million mobile professionals can access business data and applications wirelessly. Of these nine million users, the majority can access only email. Extending the reach of critical business applications to mobile workers has been proven to increase productivity and efficiency, generating measurable ROI. By mobilizing IBM® Lotus® Domino® applications and enabling those gains, IT departments can leveragetheir investments and drive revenue, rather than cost. [1] The BlackBerry® Enterprise Server is part of an integrated mobility solution that connects Lotus Domino databases to mobile users with minimal effort and expense. With “Out of the Box” control of devices through IT Policies and secure connectivity to your environment, the BlackBerry® Enterprise Solution ensures that your application dataremains confidential. The BlackBerry Enterprise Solution offers several free development options to enable applications for wireless usage. These include: 1. A full-featured Java™ Micro Edition (Java™ ME) development environment called the BlackBerry® Java™ Development Environment (BlackBerry JDE) 2. BlackBerry® MDS Studio, a rapid application development (RAD) environment to extend existing WebServices, and 3. Optimizing web content for viewing on the BlackBerry® Browser.

Flexibility
BlackBerry Java Development Environment

BlackBerry MDS Studio

BlackBerry Browser

Ease of Development

Figure 1: BlackBerry Development Approaches: Flexibility vs. Ease of Development

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AnOverview for Effectively Creating BlackBerry Applications that Interact with Domino Databases
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The BlackBerry Mobile Data System
Mobilizing applications for the BlackBerry platform increases responsiveness to customers and partners by optimizing staff resources. The median user of BlackBerry-mobilized applications reclaims 196 hours of productivity per year [2]. By linking distributed groupsmore closely, the average efficiency of BlackBerry-mobilized teams increases 29 percent. These productivity gains allow IT departments to step out of their traditional, reactive “cost center” roles and build enabling applications that increase revenue across the entire workforce. The BlackBerry® Mobile Data System is an optimized application development framework for the BlackBerry EnterpriseSolution. It provides application management, rapid time-to-market, and the data security required for using the wireless network to access corporate applications.

Application and Device Management
The BlackBerry Enterprise Server functions as the middleware between the Domino server and the BlackBerry devices. As part of the BlackBerry Enterprise Server, the BlackBerry Manager application...