CODEWITHSUNDEEP
ibm-mobilefirst
Nitin Mesta
Nitin Mesta

Reputation: 1504

IBM Worklight - What is worklight server?

I am using Worklight and am struggling to understand what exactly is a worklight server.

Where does it reside?

When we build the app it shows in the server console that the app is getting deployed to the Worklight Server.

Initially I thought in order to have an adapter where we invoke the procedure from custom java class, these needed to be deployed to the worklight server. But when I see the app work on real devices where there is no contact with local server where worklight was running , I was shocked to see app gets the data from the custom class even though it was not on some remote worklight server.

Upvotes: 3

Views: 3855

Answers (1)

Idan Adar
Idan Adar

Reputation: 44516

  1. Google...
  2. IBM Worklight website's and IBM Worklight Getting Started training materials
  3. IBM Worklight user documentation

Worklight Server is the entity that facilitates communication between the client (app) and backend (databases, etc...) using adapters; it also manages application life cycle - allows to block access or notify an app; provides user and device authentication; sends push notifications and web resource updates, etc.

Any request made by the app, be it a connect attempt or adapter request, connects the app with the server.

When you install the Worklight Developer Edition (via the Eclipse marketplace or otherwise), which is an Eclipse plug-in, to your Eclipse... this installation bundles a WAS Liberty profile application server within. Worklight Studio, the IDE and Worklight Server are auto-magically and transparently "installed".

A filesystem-based database is also created within the Worklight-related folders in the Eclipse workspace. Worklight Studio handles the building and deployment of applications and adapters in this development environment.

When you move to a production environment, you install some supported application server (like WAS, Liberty, Tomcat) and deploy to it various Worklight artifacts - the Worklight framework, (the server), project-related files, apps and adapters.

Please read the documentation. Reserve Stackoverflow for programming-related questions.

Upvotes: 5

Related Questions