Roadmap to Mobile Web Development

Duration: 8 Hours

This introductory course introduces the foundation technologies that developers use to build Mobile Web applications.

JavaScript frameworks provide developers with a flexible and structured model for building Ajax web applications for mobile devices. With these frameworks, Ajax web applications retrieve server-side information through REST services.

This course introduces the key features in the IBM Worklight platform, an integrated package for developing, connecting, and managing mobile solutions in the enterprise.

The course also describes the courses in the Mobile Web Development curriculum that examine each of these technologies in detail.

What You'll Learn

• Explain the concept of Mobile Web applications
• Identify the foundation skills that are required to design, develop, and deploy Mobile Web applications
• Explain how the Ajax application model architecture relates to Mobile Web applications
• List the courses in the Mobile Web Development curriculum
• Describe the role of JavaScript frameworks
• Explain the role of REST services in Mobile Web applications

Who Needs to Attend

This basic course is designed for web application developers, enterprise Java developers, solution architects, and technical managers.

Prerequisites

You should be familiar with HTML web application development.

Follow-On Courses

There are no follow-ons for this course.

Course Outline

• Course introduction
• Mobile Web applications: an introduction
• Ajax web application architecture
• HTML5 and JavaScript
• Dojo Toolkit JavaScript framework
• jQuery Mobile JavaScript framework
• Demonstration: Dojo Toolkit and jQuery Mobile Web applications
• REST service: server-side applications
• Demonstration: Calling server applications with REST services
• Ajax web application architecture