• Worklight Studio – An integrated development environment (IDE) built on Eclipse used by
a developer to build a mobile app.
• Worklight Device Runtime – A framework supplied with the application that provides
services used by that application.
• Worklight Server – A back-end server environment used to service requests from a mobile
app.
• Worklight Console – A web based application used to manage and monitor mobile apps.
• Worklight Application Center – A Worklight Server hosted application that provides the
ability for users to select and install applications onto their mobile devices. Developers and
administrators can also publish applications that can then be accessed.
Adapter Components
Client applications often have to interact with back-end systems to retrieve or store data. Worklight
provides an abstraction of such back-end interactions and calls these "Adapters". The way a client
interacts with an adapter is common irrespective of the implementation of that adapter. Common
adapter types include HTTP connections, SOAP web services, SQL database access and others.
See also:
• Adapters
Application Center
On the Internet, mobile applications are commonly stored installed from Apple's iTunes store or
from Google's Play Store. For mobile applications written for a business this may not be
appropriate. For example, it is unlikely that PetSupplies.com want their warehouse application to
be available to anyone other than their employees. A component of Worklight is called
"Application Center" which provides a private "app store" managed and maintained by a company.
From this, applications can be found and installed by users. In its simplest terms, Application
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