Mobile Application Development Platforms- A
firm oneby Reji K Paul (Software Programmer, Excellone Technologies)
Mobile application development platforms are aided
by various specific as well as generic sets of tools. The following
are the various choices in development tools.
- Traditional Microsoft Windows 98 / 2000 / NT / XP tools.
- Palm OS Application Development tools: Java being the standard
dominant application development tool for server side programming
has made it easier to write safe and reliable code through features,
like automatic memorizing and standard exception-handling. Java
interfaces are supported by several application servers.
- Modern Application Server Tools offer application server solutions
in a web environment based on conventional application servers
and this extension is moulded for mobile applications and wireless
networks.
Wireless Network specific development.
Several mobile gateway vendors like IBM, Broad
beam, Oracle, Sybase, and Telecordia technologies offer mobile application
development tools kit. Investigating specialized middleware for
wireless and mobile applications are conducted to find the vendors
who address all these requirements.
Data synchronization products
Numerous files & DBMS synchronization products
are available to solve the problem of synchronizing information
in notebook and PDAs with master information in the desktop or
the server. Customization can be done through APIs.
The various choices in development tools being
furnished for Mobile application development platforms, decision-making
regarding use of the same, becomes easy.
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