IBM Worklight

Mobile application platform

Overview

IBM Worklight provides an open, comprehensive and advanced mobile application platform for smartphones and tablets, helping organizations of all sizes to efficiently develop, connect, run and manage HTML5, hybrid and native applications Leveraging standards-based technologies and tools, the platform ships with a comprehensive development environment, mobile-optimized middleware, and an integrated management, and analytics console, supported by a variety of security mechanisms.

IBM Worklight enables the creation of rich, cross-platform apps without the use of code translation, proprietary interpreters or unpopular scripting languages, while reducing the time to market, cost and complexity of development and enabling a better user experiences across a variety of mobile devices.

IBM Worklight is part of the IBM Mobile Foundation family of products that provides the essential elements needed for complete mobile development, deployment and management within a business.

What’s new in IBM Worklight V5 (PDF, 225KB)

Included Components

IBM Worklight consists of four main components:

IBM Worklight Studio - An Eclipse-based IDE, allowing developers to perform all the coding and integration tasks that are required to develop a fully operational application.
IBM Worklight Server – The Java-based Server is a scalable gateway between applications, external services, and the enterprise backend infrastructure. The Server contains security features to enable connectivity, multi-source data extraction and manipulation, authentication, direct update of web and hybrid apps, analytics and operational management functions.
IBM Worklight Device Runtime Components - Client-side runtime code that embeds server functionality within the target-environment of deployed apps.
IBM Worklight Console - A web-based UI dedicated for the ongoing monitoring and administration of the Worklight Server and its deployed apps, adapters and push notifications.