Introduction to BlackBerry
Smartphone Web
Development—The BlackBerry
Infrastructure
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Date
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Agenda
In this course, you will cover the following topics:
– Introduction to Mobile Device web development
– Web development tools for mobile devices
– The BlackBerry® Infrastructure
– Optimizing Web Content for Mobile Device Browsers
– Introduction to Browser Push
– Widgets
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Introduction to BlackBerry Smartphone Web Development
Objectives
– Describe the BlackBerry Infrastructure (BlackBerry®
Enterprise Solution and BlackBerry® Internet Service)
– Explain how BlackBerry Infrastructure and mobile
application development differ from computer web
development and Internet connectivity
– Describe the BlackBerry® Browser capabilities and
configurations
Introduction to BlackBerry Infrastructure
Two most common ways that BlackBerry® smartphones
receive data from an organization and the Internet are
through:
–BlackBerry Enterprise Solution
–BlackBerry Internet Service
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BlackBerry Enterprise Solution
– A robust software that acts as the centralized link
between wireless devices, wireless networks, and
enterprise applications
– The server integrates with messaging and collaboration
systems to provide mobile users with access to email
messages, instant messaging, and personal
management information tools
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BlackBerry Enterprise Solution
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BlackBerry Enterprise Solution components
Component
Function
BlackBerry Administration
Service
Connects to BlackBerry Configuration
Database to manage the BlackBerry Domain
BlackBerry Attachment
Service
Converts supported message attachments to
viewable format on BlackBerry smartphones
BlackBerry Collaboration
Service
Provides a connection between instant
messaging server and collaboration client
BlackBerry Configuration
Database
Provides details about connection from
BlackBerry Enterprise Server to wireless
network, user list, address mappings
BlackBerry Controller
Monitors BlackBerry Enterprise Server
components and restarts them
BlackBerry Dispatcher
Compresses and encrypts data sent between
BlackBerry smartphones
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BlackBerry Enterprise Solution components
Component
Function
BlackBerry MDS Application Sends requests to a BlackBerry MDS
Console
Integration Service
BlackBerry MDS
Connection Service
Permits users to access web content,
Internet, and intranets
BlackBerry MDS Integration
Service
Provides application-level integration for
BlackBerry Browser applications
BlackBerry Messaging
Agent
Connects to messaging server to provide
messaging services and acts as gateway for
BlackBerry Synchronization Service
BlackBerry Monitoring
Service
Web-based application that monitors the
BlackBerry Domain
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BlackBerry Enterprise Solution components
Component
Function
BlackBerry Monitoring Service Stores information about an organization’s
database
BlackBerry Enterprise Server environment
BlackBerry Policy Service
Sends IT policies and IT administration
commands and provisions service books
BlackBerry Router
Connects to the wireless network to send
data to and from BlackBerry smartphones
BlackBerry Synchronization
Service
Synchronizes organizer data between
BlackBerry smartphones and the
messaging server over wireless network
BlackBerry® Desktop
Manager
Web-based application that permits users
to manage their BlackBerry smartphones
IT
information technology
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BlackBerry Enterprise Solution components
Component
Function
Organization’s application server
Provides push applications and
intranet content that the BlackBerry
MDS Services use
Instant messaging server
Stores instant messaging accounts
Messaging server
Stores email accounts
User’s computer with BlackBerry
Device Manager
Hosts the BlackBerry Device
Manager and permits users to
connect their BlackBerry
smartphones to their computers using
a serial or USB connection
USB
universal serial bus
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BlackBerry Mobile Data System
– An optimized framework for creating, deploying, and
managing applications for the BlackBerry Enterprise
Solution
– BlackBerry MDS Services for managing requests and
interactions between BlackBerry smartphones and
enterprise applications behind a firewall
– Tools and software to develop and run applications for
BlackBerry smartphones
MDS
Mobile Data System
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BlackBerry MDS Services
• Communicate with application servers using SOAP,
Custom Data, XML, HTML, and WML with HTTP
SOAP Simple Object Access Protocol XML Extensible Markup Language
HTML Hypertext Markup Language
WML Wireless Markup Language
HTTP Hypertext Transfer Protocol
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BlackBerry Connect Software
BlackBerry® Connect Software:
– Provides push delivery technology and connects
BlackBerry smartphone users to BlackBerry Enterprise
Server and BlackBerry Internet Service
– BlackBerry Enterprise Server software integrates an
organization’s infrastructure with the BlackBerry
Infrastructure
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BlackBerry Enterprise Solution data flow
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BlackBerry Enterprise Solution data flow
1. Email message is compressed, encrypted using AES or
Triple DES, and sent to wireless network.
2. Wireless network sends email message to Internet
through BlackBerry Infrastructure.
3. Email message reaches sender’s firewall and passes
through outbound connection to BlackBerry Enterprise
Server.
4. BlackBerry Enterprise Server decrypts, decompresses,
and sends email message to Outbox folder.
AES
Advanced Encryption Standard
Triple DES Triple Data Encryption Standard
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BlackBerry Enterprise Solution data flow
5. Email message travels across Internet as SMTP traffic to
receiver’s firewall.
6. BlackBerry Enterprise Server monitors receiver’s
mailbox, retrieves email message, compresses and
encrypts the first 2Kb of email message, and queues it
for delivery.
7. Receiver’s BlackBerry smartphone receives, decrypts,
and decompresses email message.
SMTP Simple Mail Transfer Protocol
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BlackBerry Internet Service
BlackBerry Browser features:
– BlackBerry Browser uses BlackBerry Internet Service as
a gateway to the Internet and is hosted by the
BlackBerry Infrastructure.
– BlackBerry Internet Service differs from BlackBerry MDS
as it does not require the BlackBerry Enterprise Server
and is not used through the organization’s firewall.
– BlackBerry Internet Service does not support Triple DES
encryption and secure sites (HTTPs) are not available.
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BlackBerry Internet Service
– Communicates with the BlackBerry Infrastructure using
HTTP over the RIM ® IPPP
– Preprocesses and compresses HTML or XHTML
content before sending it to the BlackBerry smartphone,
which speeds up transfers
– Sends processed content to the BlackBerry smartphone
as it becomes available
– Optimizes images for display on BlackBerry smartphone
RIM
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IPPP IPPP Internet Protocol Proxy Protocol
XHTML Extensible HyperText Markup Language
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BlackBerry Internet Service
– Processes and transmits images with content to help
reduce network traffic
– Transcodes specific content types for appropriate
display on the BlackBerry smartphone
– Permits BlackBerry smartphone users to associate their
BlackBerry smartphones with an email address in the
blackberry.net domain
– Permits BlackBerry smartphone users to associate up to
ten work or personal email accounts with a BlackBerry
smartphone
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BlackBerry Internet Service
Permits BlackBerry smartphone users to:
– Experience push delivery of email messages
– Access attachments and images wirelessly in popular
formats
– Access HTML and WAP web pages using the
BlackBerry Internet Service Browsing service
WAP Wireless Application Protocol
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BlackBerry Internet Service
– BlackBerry Infrastructure interacts with BlackBerry
Internet Servers that are maintained by RIM® and
administered by each wireless service provider.
– Permits subscribers to resend service books to their
BlackBerry smartphones and create email message
filters.
– BlackBerry Internet Service compresses email
messages before sending them to the wireless network,
but does not encrypt email content.
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BlackBerry Internet Service data flow
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BlackBerry Internet Service data flow
1. Email message is compressed and sent to wireless
network.
2. Wireless network sends email message to the BlackBerry
Infrastructure.
3. BlackBerry Internet Service decompresses the email
message and delivers it to receiver’s messaging server.
4. BlackBerry Internet Service monitors receiver’s email
accounts and retrieves email message.
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BlackBerry Internet Service data flow
5. BlackBerry Internet Service compresses first 2Kb of the
email message and queues it for delivery.
6. BlackBerry Infrastructure sends the email message to the
wireless network.
7. Wireless network receives the email message and
forwards it to receiver’s BlackBerry smartphone.
8. Receiver’s BlackBerry smartphone receives and
decompresses the email message and sends
acknowledgement of receipt.
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BlackBerry web development
BlackBerry web development permits you to:
– Create browser-based applications and deploy them
with minimal effort
– Leverage industry standards from HTML to AJAX
– Push data to user devices and leverage offline queuing
– Create web applications that are easily accessible
through BlackBerry Infrastructure
AJAX Asynchronous JavaScript and XML
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BlackBerry web development platform features
– Web signal content updates that push data directly to
BlackBerry smartphone users
– Push technology that allows you to send information to
the browser using channel, cache, and message push
regardless of back-end server technology
– Offline queuing that automatically queues pages for
submittal when reentering the coverage area
– BlackBerry Browser, and BlackBerry Java® ME to
simplify development
Java ME Java Micro Edition
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BlackBerry web development tools
– BlackBerry® Web Plug-in for Eclipse® is for developing,
debugging, and profiling web applications, and includes
a BlackBerry Smartphone Simulator.
– BlackBerry® Web Plug-in for Microsoft® Visual Studio®
provides an optimized, integrated web development,
debugging, and profiling environment
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Mobile infrastructure and Internet connectivity
– BlackBerry Infrastructure supports communication with
BlackBerry smartphones over wireless networks through a
secure connection from behind a firewall.
– Internet connectivity is based on TCP/IP and the Open
Systems Interconnection model which defines Internet
working in vertical layers.
– OSI upper layers are Application, Presentation, and Session
for encryption and connection management.
– OSI lower layers are Transport, Network, Data Link, and
Physical for routing, addressing, and flow control.
TCP/IP Transmission Control Protocol/Internet Protocol
OSI
Open Systems Interconnection
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BlackBerry Browser
BlackBerry Browser physical components include:
– BlackBerry smartphones
– Wireless network
– Network gateway
Network gateways connect the wireless networks, over
which BlackBerry smartphones communicate.
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Network gateways
• A gateway converts incoming content into a suitable form
for the BlackBerry smartphone and converts outgoing
content into a form suitable for destination web servers
and pages.
• BlackBerry smartphones access the Internet through the
following network gateways:
– BlackBerry MDS Connection Service
– BlackBerry Internet Service Browsing
– WAP
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BlackBerry MDS Connection Service
– Designed to provide users with secure access to their
organization’s intranet and access to the Internet
– A component of the BlackBerry Enterprise Server that
exists behind the firewall of an organization’s network
– Acts as a proxy for and makes requests on behalf of the
BlackBerry Browser
– Optimizes content to enhance efficiency and improve
display on smaller screens before sending content to
browser
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BlackBerry MDS Connection Service
– BlackBerry Browser accesses BlackBerry MDS
Connection Service network gateway using the
BlackBerry Browser configuration.
– BlackBerry Browser configuration communicates with
the BlackBerry MDS Connection Service using
HTTP/IPPP.
– To browse the Internet or intranet through the
BlackBerry MDS Connection Service network gateway,
users must specify the BlackBerry Browser configuration
in the Browser configuration settings.
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BlackBerry Internet Service Browsing
– Wireless service providers can use the BlackBerry
Internet Service Browsing network gateway to offer
BlackBerry smartphone users access to content
optimization and compression features provided by the
BlackBerry Infrastructure without using the BlackBerry
Enterprise Server.
– BlackBerry Browser accesses the BlackBerry Internet
Service Browsing network gateway using the Internet
browser configuration, which communicates with the
gateway using HTTP/IPPP.
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WAP network gateway
– Hosted by wireless service providers
– BlackBerry Browser accesses the WAP network
gateway using the WAP Browser configuration.
– To browse the Internet through a WAP network
gateway, users must specify the WAP configuration in
the Browser Configuration settings.
– WAP Browser configuration supports the WAP version
1.2.1 and WAP version 2.0 protocols.
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Network gateway configurations
Users can choose which gateway the BlackBerry
Browser communicates with by choosing the
associated configuration:
– WAP Browser configuration accesses bookmarks
provided by Internet service providers
– Internet Browser configuration accesses Internet content
– BlackBerry Browser configuration accesses an
organization’s intranet
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BlackBerry Browser configuration
Browser types are distinguished by their transport.
WiFi ® Wireless Fidelity
WLAN wireless local area network
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BlackBerry Browser configuration
– BlackBerry Browser breaks out to the Internet at the
BlackBerry MDS Connection Service of the BlackBerry
Enterprise.
– BlackBerry Browser optimizes data by compression,
encryption, and transcoding.
– Internet Browser breaks out to the Internet at the
BlackBerry Internet Service.
– Because of reduced optimization and shorter signaling
length, Internet Browser is a faster browser.
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Service books
– Availability of browsers is governed by available service
books on the BlackBerry smartphone.
– BlackBerry Browser is associated with Desktop[IPPP]
and Desktop[BrowserConfig] service books.
– Desktop[IPPP] identifies transport and
Desktop[BrowserConfig] stores the configuration.
– BlackBerry Browser service books originate from the
BlackBerry Enterprise Server.
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BlackBerry Internet Browser service books
– Internet Browser is associated with BlackBerry Internet
Browsing Service[IPPP] and BlackBerry Internet
Browsing service[BrowserConfig].
– These service books are sent out by the BlackBerry
Internet Solution architecture.
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Summary
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Summary
In this chapter, you learned about the BlackBerry
Infrastructure:
– To reduce costs and increase data transmission
speeds, the BlackBerry Enterprise Solution
compresses data sent to and received from
BlackBerry smartphones.
– BlackBerry Internet Service Browsing was
developed to use the BlackBerry Internet Service as
a gateway to the Internet and is hosted by the
BlackBerry Infrastructure.
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Summary
– The BlackBerry Internet Service does not require
the BlackBerry Enterprise Server.
– The BlackBerry MDS is an optimized framework for
creating, deploying, and managing applications for
the BlackBerry Enterprise Solution.
– The BlackBerry development platform includes
BlackBerry Browser, Java ME.
– Internet connectivity is based on the standardize
TCP/IP protocol suite and OSI model.
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Summary
– The BlackBerry Browser operates in a wireless
browsing environment consisting of BlackBerry
smartphones, wireless networks, and network
gateways.
– The BlackBerry Browser breaks out to the Internet
at the BlackBerry MDS Connection Service of the
BlackBerry Enterprise Solution.
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