Chapter 14. WEF and Mobile Web Applications

In the recent years, we have been experiencing an explosion in the mobile devices' market. Cellular phones and tablets have become integral part of everyone's life. In many countries, the number of mobile devices has surpassed their population. Such growth should not come as a surprise to any one aware of the benefits provided by the mobile technology.

The applications running on these devices play a major role in this space. In the mobile arena web applications continue being of crucial importance for corporations. Currently, almost every corporation wants to enable its customers to access its existing web applications over mobile devices.

WEF has expanded its capability to enable the development of web applications capable of being rendered in mobile devices. IBM refers to this newly added capability as an expansion to support the development of multichannel applications.

In this chapter we will look into the solution provided by WEF to enable...