Mobile apps using IBM Worklight and WebSphere Portal: a tutorial

IBM recently posted a new tutorial on developerWorks about how to use IBM Worklight to deliver WebSphere Portal pages.  The title of the article is very long, but here it is: Deliver an exceptional mobile web experience using WebSphere Portal and IBM Worklight, Part 1: Integrating a hybrid mobile application with WebSphere Portal pages by Jaye Fitzgerald and Jonathan Lidaka. The title indicates it is Part 1, so I’m excited to see the future parts.

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If you are not familiar with IBM Worklight, take a look at my previous blog post: Understanding IBM Worklight.  Essentially Worklight is a mobile delivery platform that can help transform web sites into native mobile applications.

The developerWorks article cited above walks you through creating a Worklight application that shows how to integrate Worklight with WebSphere Portal 8 using responsive design techniques.  You will need IBM Worklight, IBM WebSphere Portal 8, Eclipse, an Android SDK, and a WebDav client to implement the application.  The authors promise iOS examples in future articles.

Esseentially, you create a native application that renders Portal 8 pages.  The tutorial is very extensive and covers a lot of ground.   It not only talks about what you do in Worklight, it also goes into the Portal 8 theme to show how to adjust the theme to be more responsive.