What is IBM Worklight

Many people have confusion about what is this product offering from IBM. To know fully they have to go through lots of documentation. In this post i am trying to provide a nutshell of my understanding of IBM Worklight.

Worklight is an eclipse plugin for application development just like maven plugin or ide to create other Java/web applications.
It contains embedded worklight server, so that you can deploy and test your applications from the eclipse environment itself.

Worklight applications can be of 2 types

    1) Serverside adapters : Using adapters you can retrieve data from another webservice (SOAP based or REST based) or from your backedn DB or from JMS queue. All the adapters return data to worklight application in JSON format.
   
    2) Client applications : Using worklight studio you can develop web based (HTML5), hybrid (web component and native component) and native (specific to mobile platform) client applications for both android and iOS environments.

For more information on IBM worklight you can refer to extensive documentation at

http://www-01.ibm.com/software/mobile-solutions/worklight/components/mobile-development-platform/

http://www.ibm.com/developerworks/downloads/ws/worklight/

https://www.ibm.com/developerworks/community/blogs/worklight/?lang=en

A mini poem on a relaxing sunday

 My son had switched off the night while i was relaxing in the terrace. Don't know it was the effect of Murakami (Blind Willow Sleeping Woman) or Ramdhari Singh Dinkar (Kurukshetra). Anyhow i was inspired to write these 4 lines.

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Lights are out, half moon in the sky.
Cool breeze is blowing, as clouds pass by.
Plants are swaying, silence is a bliss.
Life is a blessing, not to miss.

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