IBM Workplace Client Technology Micro Edition Version 5.7.1: Application Development and Case Study

240 WCTME: Application Development and Case Study

9.1 Overview

The WebSphere studio tool allows the user to create all the artifacts necessary to

deploy to a list of platforms that are supported by the tool or to a custom platform.

The following platforms in Table 9-1 are supported by the WebSphere Studio

tool.

Table 9-1 Platform types

If you need to support platforms and operating systems that are not included in

this matrix, you could use the custom option. The custom option requires the

location of an external JVM operating on the chosen Operating system processor

combination.

The creation of the application in a format that is ready to deploy involves several

steps:

1. Exporting application bundles.

2. Exporting web application bundles, if necessary.

3. Creating a Platform Builder Project

a. Configuration settings

b. Adding application bundles

c. Resolving required bundles

d. Performing the build

After you have created a platform builder project and performed a build, if any

bundles need updating, then remove the old bundles. Lastly, add in the

replacement bundles and perform another build.

Platform Type Operating

System

Processor

PocketPC WindowsCE ARM

Zaurus Linux ARM

PC Red Hat Linux x86

PC Windows 2000 x86

PC Windows XP x86

Custom MacOS,

Solaris.....

ARM, Alpha,

Power,....

Note: You can then add custom files to a builder project, because our sample

application needs to run in stand-alone mode.