Building and deploying mobile applications

You can set up your development environment so that you can build your mobile applications and, by using the IBM® Worklight® plug-in for IBM UrbanCode Deploy, deploy the build results to the IBM Worklight Server.

Before you begin

Ensure that the following software is installed and running:

Extra software might be required, such as:
  • Source control management (SCM) system.
  • Build engine.
  • Application server.
  • Database.

About this task

Before you can build and deploy mobile applications to the Worklight Server, you must complete the following configuration steps:
  1. Configure the build system.
  2. Configure UrbanCode Deploy, including the following steps:
  3. Configure Worklight Server Console, including the following steps:
    • Create and configure a database.
    • Configure the Worklight project Web Archive (WAR) file.

Procedure

After you set up the build, UrbanCode Deploy and Worklight Server console, you can build and deploy mobile applications by using the following high-level steps:

  1. Check in (commit) changes from IBM Worklight Studio into a source control management (SCM) system.
  2. Build the application and add a new version to UrbanCode Deploy.
    Tip: Assign a version to the mobile application that is deployed to the Application Center. This version must match the version that is assigned in UrbanCode Deploy. For example, if the mobile application has a commercial version of 1.0 on the Application Center and the internal version from the latest build is 16, assign version 1.0.16 to the application in UrbanCode Deploy. Keeping the version numbers synchronized helps you to recover if you encounter a problem. For example, if the latest version of the mobile application was not deployed successfully to the Application Center.
  3. Request deployment in UrbanCode Deploy.
  4. View the mobile artifacts in the Worklight Console, install, and test the application from the Application Center.

Results

The mobile application artifacts are deployed to the Worklight Server and can be installed on the target device.

What to do next

Optionally, create extra component and application processes in UrbanCode Deploy to roll back deployments (for example, to recover from an error condition or an incomplete deployment.)

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