Developing Mobile Web 2.0 Applications for WebSphere Application Server V8

Course details

PLEASE NOTE: This course is also available as an Instructor Led Online Course, Developing Mobile Web 2.0 Applications for WebSphere Application Server V8 (ILO) (VD470GB). Please note this option does not require any travel.

This instructor-led course teaches software developers how to build rich, interactive web applications for deployment on desktop and mobile browsers.

The course is designed to teach you how to build browser-based mobile web applications that are based on standards like HTML (hypertext markup language), CSS (cascading style sheets), and JavaScript.

Hands-on lab exercises throughout the course offer students the opportunity to use IBM Rational Application Developer for WebSphere Software to build, test, and deploy mobile web applications to the Ajax test server and to IBM WebSphere Application Server V8. The lab environment for this course uses the Windows platform.

Target Audience:

This intermediate course is designed for web developers and application programmers who want to create cross-platform Ajax (Asynchronous JavaScript and XML) web applications that can run on desktop browsers and mobile devices.

Objectives:

• Identify usage patterns for mobile web applications
• Describe the characteristics of the various types of mobile applications
• Describe how HTML5 supports the development of cross-platform applications
• Code JavaScript functions
• Use the form elements of HTML5
• Describe the benefits of using the Dojo JavaScript framework for building cross-platform applications
• Use HTML5 with Dojo, JavaScript, and Cascading Style Sheets (CSS)
• Include multimedia audio and video elements within an HTML5 web page
• Code graphical elements with the HTML5 canvas element
• Develop web pages that work in offline mode
• Store information locally with web storage
• Use the geolocation API to provide location-based services
• Explain the role of CSS and JavaScript in mobile web applications
• Build web pages for mobile devices with dojox.mobile themes and widgets

Prerequisites:

Students should have:

Some background in website development with HTML or enterprise web development Some familiarity with the Eclipse-based Rational development tools