1 Introducing Oracle Application Server Wireless

This chapter, through the following sections describes Oracle Application Server Wireless and this user guide:

Section 1.1, "Overview of OracleAS Wireless Tools"
Section 1.2, "Using This Guide"

1.1 Overview of OracleAS Wireless Tools

OracleAS Wireless provides a complete set of Web-based tools, which provide functions for developing and publishing mobile applications, creating mobile users, providing help desk support, and managing the OracleAS Wireless server. These tools each include step-by-step wizards, which enable you to quickly accomplish any task. The wizard pages include in-line hints and tips which provide information for new users to quickly learn the tools. The online help enables experienced users to utilize the advanced features.

Out of the box, OracleAS Wireless provides the following tools:

System Manager

The System Manager tool enables users to configure, manage and monitor the performance of OracleAS Wireless.
Service Manager

The Service Manager enables users to create different types of OracleAS Wireless applications, such as HTTP-based applications or J2ME MIDlets.
Content Manager

The Content Manager enables users to publish and customize Service Manager-created applications to OracleAS Wireless users.
Sensor Services Tool

The Sensor Services tool enables users to create and manage the objects of the Oracle Sensor Edge Server.
Foundation Manager

The Foundation Manager enables users to create and modify the such objects as devices, transformers, adapters, regions, digital rights policies, and API scan policies
User Manager

The User Manager provides user-support tasks, such as creating a new user, resetting the PIN and password for a user or viewing user statistics.
OracleAS Wireless Customization Portal

The OracleAS Wireless Customization Portal enables end-users to personalize OracleAS Wireless applications and manage their personal profiles, including their devices and Location Marks. The Customization Portal can be used as the out-of-box Web-based portal along with the device-based portal.

The OracleAS Wireless Tools are role-specific; OracleAS Wireless users can only access the tool which corresponds to the role or roles that they have been granted. These user roles, which are described in Table 1-1, span all of the OracleAS Wireless resources, from server management, application development, application publishing, and help desk to subscription to the OracleAS Wireless applications. Because these tools are Web-based, they require no client-side installation. After installing and starting the OracleAS Wireless server, multiple users can access the OracleAS Wireless tools through normal desktop browsers.

You do not need to manually configure any server files or code with APIs to access the out-of-box features of the OracleAS Wireless server, unless you want to expand the OracleAS Wireless server functions.

Table 1-1 OracleAS Wireless User Roles

User Role	Description	Available Tools
Application Developer	Users assigned the Application Developer role perform the following functions: Create, modify, delete and test applications. Publish applications to the Application Developer's folder. Create, modify, and delete notifications. Create, modify, and delete data feeders. Register and delete J2ME Web services. Develop preset definitions.	Service Manager
Foundation Developer	Users assigned the Foundation Developer role perform the following functions: Create, modify, and delete devices. Create, modify, and delete transformers. Create, modify, and delete regions. Create, modify, and delete digital rights policies. Create, modify, and delete API scan policies.	Foundation Manager
Content Manager	Users assigned the Content Manager role perform the following functions: Manage application folders and bookmarks. Create application links based on Application Developer-created applications. Create notifications based on alerts (now deprecated). Create application categories and associate access points with them. Create a user-home folder rendering scheme, such as setting the sorting order for applications.	Content Manager
System Administrator	Users assigned the System Administrator role perform configuration management and performance monitoring for various OracleAS Wireless servers. The OracleAS Wireless servers are deployed both as OC4J (OracleAS Containers for J2EE) applications and as standalone Java applications.	System Manager. This tool is packaged with Oracle Enterprise Manager and is accessed through the Application Server Control.
User Manager	Users assigned the User Manager role perform the following functions: Manage users by providing such Help Desk functions as editing a user profile, resetting passwords and PINs, and creating or deleting users. Manage user access privileges. View application links assigned to users. Manage user devices. Search for users. View overview information of users.	User Manager
Sensor Services Administrator	User assigned the Sensor Services Administrator role manage the devices and filters used with the Oracle Sensor Edge Server. These functions include: Create drivers for Oracle Sensor Edge Server devices Create filters used with Oracle Sensor Edge Server devices Manage the Oracle Sensor Edge Server devices assigned to the Edge Server processes	Sensor Services Tool
End User	Users assigned the end user role are the consumers of OracleAS Wireless services. End-users create their own accounts when they register with OracleAS Wireless using the OracleAS Wireless Customization. End users can also customize their own applications either from a desktop or from a device. Customization for end-users includes: Customize applications, download J2ME applications, subscribe to notifications. Manage devices. Manage location marks and location settings. Manage contact rules. Mobile studio users also have the end user role; a user belonging to the StudioUser group can access the Mobile Studio. Every OracleAS Wireless user is granted the Mobile Customer Role by default. This role is implicit to all users.	Wireless Customization Portal Mobile Studio (for users assigned to the StudioUser group)

1.2 Using This Guide

In addition to the OracleAS Wireless Tools (described in Section 1.1), this guide describes the following:

OracleAS Wireless server and site configuration.
OracleAS Wireless gateway configuration for voice and messaging communications.
Security support for OracleAS Wireless.
Mobile user Single Sign-On (SSO) support.
Activity logging for the Multi-Channel Server, Notification Engine, Messaging Server, data feeder engine, and the Async Listener.
The tuning knobs for enhancing the performance of OracleAS Wireless, such as those for JVM as well as the Oracle Application Server high-availability components, Oracle HTTP Server (OHS), OracleAS Containers for J2EE (OC4J) OracleAS Wireless Instance, and Oracle Process Management and Notification (OPMN).
Load balancing and failover enabled by clustering and high availability.
Multi-locale and multi-encoding support.
Integration with other components.