136 Patterns: Pervasive and Rich Device Access Solutions
8.1 Pervasive tool strategy
The pervasive tools are charged with accomplishing these three key goals:
Extend IBM’s application development framework to mobile workers by
providing tools to enable developers to create mobile On Demand solutions.
Make it easy to extend existing applications to the pervasive environment and
to create new pervasive solutions.
Provide tools that empower developers to deliver pervasive solutions.
The objectives for the tools are to:
Support open standards based technologies.
Support the complete application development life cycle.
Increase the productivity of the development team building the pervasive
solution(s) by providing Rapid Application Developmen ...