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Ravi G
Ravi G

Reputation: 869

IBM Worklight - Can commercial apps be created using the Developer Edition?

Can we build commercial apps using the IBM Worklight free Developer Edition?

I searched the IBM official site and I sensed that we have to buy the license to develop commercial apps. But, can someone please clarify it?

Upvotes: 0

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Answers (1)

Idan Adar
Idan Adar

Reputation: 44516

Legally speaking: No, you cannot.

Non-Production Limitation

The Program can only be deployed as part of the Licensee's internal development and test environment for internal non-production activities, including but not limited to testing, performance tuning, fault diagnosis, internal benchmarking, staging, quality assurance activity and/or developing internally used additions or extensions to the Program using published application programming interfaces. Licensee is not authorized to use any part of the Program for any other purposes without acquiring the appropriate production entitlements.

Technically speaking: you could create an application that does not utilize Worklight features that in order to use them in a production environment, you'd have to buy the Consumer or Enterprise Edition of IBM Worklight.

By doing so you will lose:

  • The ability to install Worklight Server on an application server
  • The ability to utilize Worklight Adapters for backend connectivity, that rely on Worklight Server
  • The ability to secure your application using numerous built-in security features (application authenticity, device provisioning, ...)
  • The ability to manage your applications (notify, disable, ...)
  • The ability to remotely update (Direct Update) your applications
  • The ability to leverage Worklight's unified Push Notifications
  • The ability to see operational analytics
  • ... and the list goes on.

Instead, you will have to rely on AJAX requests and spend time on (re-)implementing various aspects required for an application (but that's also of course depending on the scope and purpose of the application).

Also see:

For any inquiries about Worklight I would suggest to contact IBM:

Upvotes: 1

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