2. Who is CM First?
Enterprise Software Development Integrator
• Offices in Switzerland, USA, Italy, India
• Network of worldwide resale partners (Americas, EMEA,
APJ, ANZ)
CA Primary Sales and Technology Partner
• CA 2E, CA Plex, CA Repository
• Footprint covers 20% of Installed Base
App Dev Products
• CM Matchpoint ALM Suite
• CM WebClient i+
• CM Power (PHP) Suite
• CM M3 (CA 2E Migration / Modernization)
• SD Source Scanners for CA Repository
Third-party Solutions
• Databorough, Desynit, Soreco, Worksoft, Websydian
3. Overview
• Why use the Mac?
Ajax in Greek mythology
• Plex on the Mac
• Mobile Apps with Plex/WebClient
• Devices – Xcode, Android SDK,
Adobe/Apache Phonegap
• Device Hardware - Camera
4. Why Use the Mac with CA Plex?
• Why use the Mac?
• All the really cool and hip developers
have gone there
• Opportunity to re-accessorize
• Learn all new keyboard shortcuts such
as the cloverleaf
• Just love a challenge
• Or - Apple Forces This
• iOS license agreement
• Why not?
8. Step 1
• Install VMWare Fusion for Mac
• Or Parallels
• Migrate your PC, or set up anew
(recommended)
• Install VMWare Tools
• Set up your CA Plex environment
on the VM
• Generate to a shared folder on the host
mac
• Start generating Java
• Create a shortcut to Plex using
Fusion view (optional)
9. Step 2
• Install Eclipse on both PC and
Mac
• Eclipse Indigo works well
• Need separate versions / installs
• Establish Separate Workspaces
• Set up linked folders to single Plex Gen
• Or use Subversion/Matchpoint to share
projects between WorkSpaces
• Refer to WebClient documentation
(purchase not required)
• You are done!
10. Optional
• Move to a Mac database
• MySQL, Derby
• Wrap your Java app as Mac App
• Warning – technical
• Start working on Angry Nerds
• Stay tuned for Part II
15. Statistics – May 2011
The world is going mobile
• 50 million iPhones sold to
date
• 200,000 Android devices
sold each day
• 8.5 million iPads sold to
date
• 70 million tablets predicted
by the end of 2012
• 2/3 of the Fortune 100 have
started deploying iPads for
Enterprise use – now 95%
16. AJAX / JavaScript / HTML5 is Big
…and getting bigger
“Ajax remains
the dominant
RIA of choice,
and HTML5 is
poised to
expand the
power and
flexibility of the
browser only
approach”
Gartner Group
Ajax mountain
17. CA Plex+WebClient with Sencha Touch / PhoneGap
• Covers 93%+
of mobile
traffic
• HTML 5,
CSS3, ExtJS
• SaSS
• Local Storage
• Media/Geo
• Camera
• More…
18. 1.8 Mobile iPhone/iPad/Android/BB6
Web App with Native Optimization
mobileportal.cmfirsttech.com/Plex2EWeb/wcs
HTML5, CSS3
Native App - Android Market Sencha Touch
http://market.android.com “Gartner COOL Vendor
2011”
26. Step 1
• Generate your App as
WebClient Mobile
• See Google Code Project – open
source to WebClient customers
• Test with WebKit browser
emulator
• Chrome or Safari
• Ripple (warning, not exact)
27. Step 2
• Get your Apple developer id
• Warning – Allow time
• Install XCode
• Available on the Apple App Store – no
charge
• Download / Install Apache
PhoneGap (Adobe)
• All device projects in single archive
• Install PhoneGap per site
tutorial for Xcode
28. Step 3
• Create an Xcode / PhoneGap
Project
• Modify the Index HTML to point
to your application URL
• Sign code (via Apple ID)
• Test on iOS Simulators
• You are ready to go!
29. Step 4 – Android and Beyond
• Install Google SDK
• Install PhoneGap for Android
• Follow the same steps as iOS
39. WebClient Information
(click logo to view)
• webclientiplus.com
• Wiki
• Blog
• Product Downloads / Support
Hinweis der Redaktion
First, for those of you who are not familiar with CM First, here is an overview.
Rationale for using the mac
Dev architecture for Plex on the mac
Step1
Step
Step
These statistics are truly eye popping. iPhones are selling like hotcakes. There are 200,000 android devices sold each day, particularly over in Asia – there are actually more phones in China than there are people in the USA. iPad tablets are less that an year old, yet there have been millions sold. I think the most important stat to the audience today is the last one – iPhones and iPads and Android devices are no longer just a consumer phenom – they are making serious inroads into enterprise. You have probably seen the ads on medical use of iPads is taking off. But you are also seeing mobile in a wide variety of business applications, from auto dealerships to education to insurance to government.
What we are offering is what we feel is a much better way – using CA Plex in conjunction with WebClient and a mobile GUI library called Sencha Touch. Using the approach, which is JavaScript based, you will end up with a first-class mobile UI that operates as true mobile application. It will operate in an webkit-based mobile browser environment – which directly covers iPhone, iPad, and Android, or 94% of the mobile browsing traffic. It also covers some of the other platforms like BlackBerry and Nokia, that are introducing webkit based browsers onto their platforms. For example, BlackBerry 6.0 has been tested successfully with this technology. The framework makes use of the latest browser technology – for example HTML 5 and CSS 3. These technologies are expected by many to supplant older technologies like Flash and Silverlight, and in fact HTML 5 is on an upward trajectory in use at many high volume production sites. With this framework, you can do more that serve up applications – you can make use of local storage, audio/video capability, geographic services, and of course the touch framework so popular on the new devices.
Mobile
If you have done research into mobile development, you may have some questions about hardware. For example, is it possible for a JavaScript application to access the camera. It is in fact not possible for a web delivered app to access the hardware. However, it is possible to create native wrapper applications that would serve up the java script application. The JavaScript application provides the business logic, and the wrapper application provides the hardware access.