Can we build commercial apps using the IBM Worklight free Developer Edition?
I searched the IBM official site and I sensed that we have to buy the license to develop commercial apps. But, can someone please clarify it?
Legally speaking: No, you cannot.
Non-Production Limitation
The Program can only be deployed as part of the Licensee's internal
development and test environment for internal non-production
activities, including but not limited to testing, performance tuning,
fault diagnosis, internal benchmarking, staging, quality assurance
activity and/or developing internally used additions or extensions to
the Program using published application programming interfaces.
Licensee is not authorized to use any part of the Program for any
other purposes without acquiring the appropriate production
entitlements.
Technically speaking: you could create an application that does not utilize Worklight features that in order to use them in a production environment, you'd have to buy the Consumer or Enterprise Edition of IBM Worklight.
By doing so you will lose:
The ability to install Worklight Server on an application server
The ability to utilize Worklight Adapters for backend connectivity, that rely on Worklight Server
The ability to secure your application using numerous built-in security features (application authenticity, device provisioning, ...)
The ability to manage your applications (notify, disable, ...)
The ability to remotely update (Direct Update) your applications
The ability to leverage Worklight's unified Push Notifications
The ability to see operational analytics
... and the list goes on.
Instead, you will have to rely on AJAX requests and spend time on (re-)implementing various aspects required for an application (but that's also of course depending on the scope and purpose of the application).
Also see:
https://stackoverflow.com/questions/17030963/ibm-worklight-license-is-worklight-free-to-use/17031953#17031953
IBM Worklight - Limitations of Worklight Studio for Developers
For any inquiries about Worklight I would suggest to contact IBM:
https://www14.software.ibm.com/webapp/iwm/web/signup.do?source=raq&S_TACT=109HE02W&lang=en_US
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I want to understand what are the benefits of using Apigee if i already have Layer7 in place? please let me know if which is better and why.
Apigee is a very 'developer friendly' API management platform.
Layer 7 has also API management functions.
With the newest version of Layer7 (spring 2017) the API management functions have improved drastically.
Older version of Layer7
If you have (an older version) of the Layer7 platform running in order to create your public APIs, and you need a full set of modern API management functions, you can choose to either upgrade Layer7 or add Apigee on-top.
Api management team
Another reason could be "separation of concerns" combined with "Conway's law". One department (or set of product teams) can deliver the APIs, the other teams can manage them. API management requires all kind of governance tooling an processes. If it is a small team that does the API management for your company (e.g. create the proxies, give support to external developers, maintain the developer portal) Apigee might be a fast and less complex alternative to Layer 7.
Connectivity
If the Layer7 platform has no external internet connectivity yet, the addition of a separate API management platform might be the fastest choice in an enterprise environment. You could to go for a separate Layer7 setup (separation of concerns) with the latest version (or go SaaS). This can leverage the Layer7 knowledge in your company. If the API management team has no Layer7 knowledge, Apigee could be a better choice because of its simplicity (Conway's Law).
I have to implement TeaLeaf analytics for our application so i am doing sample POc for android and iphone environment for hybrids application. Anyone please advice me how can i implement the TeaLeaf stuff in my POC.
Below that activity i did,
create sample app version project and add android/iphone environment
application-descriptor.xml i added IBM teaLeaf SDK
what else i have do? i was searching google and following ibm knowledge center also there is not much clarity for tutorial and how can i test in development environment.
below that link i referred :
http://www.ibm.com/support/knowledgecenter/SSHS8R_6.3.0/com.ibm.worklight.integ.doc/integ/t_tealeaf_client.html
If I understand your question correctly, it seems like you're attempting to create a connection between IBM MobileFirst Platform 6.3.0 and IBM Tealeaf. I work on integrations of IBM Tealeaf On-Cloud with client e-commerce platforms and it seems like you might be dealing with IBM Tealeaf On-Premise.
That being said, my understanding of the process for the On-Cloud implementation is that there are a few libraries you need to make sure are being included on pages you'd like Tealeaf to observe:
Tealeaf.js (distributed by IBM)
Sizzle.js
JQuery, if the page uses it ... also note that if the site uses JQuery, you need to provision from IBM the JQuery flavor of Tealeaf.js instead of the W3C flavor.
Hammer.js
Pako.js (again this assumes the On-Cloud version of Tealeaf, as this is a library for compressing data a being sent to IBM cloud-service collectors. In the On-Premise version my understanding is that this data is written to a file that is saved to the local hardware.)
How the libraries are included is something you'd decide when working with the client's server and development team - every organization has their preferences. Generally though they'd be inserted on pages that need to be monitored and the Tealeaf.js config would be edited to specify the endpoint of the collector for the regional data center on which space was provisioned for the client (in the US, either in Dallas or Washington DC.)
As for the On-Premise implementation of Tealeaf, you can jump in to the documentation here: http://www.ibm.com/support/knowledgecenter/SS2MBL/tealeaf_product_family_welcome.html
We're planning to develop a web based Healthcare Practice Management System. Due to HIPAA we're requested to deploy the app in our own premises. Our company is relatively small currently we have only software engineers and no devops engineers but still we want to develop the application to support horizontal scaling(adding more servers).
Planned to use:
Python3 (Django)
PostgreSQL
I'm looking for something like AppScale but with the freedom of choosing our own runtime, database and frameworks.
In other words from the software engineer's perspective:
Should provide an easy way to deploy django application
Should have web based dashboard to monitor and control(like AppScale)
Should make load balancing simple (app and database)
AppScale implements the Google App Engine APIs which, IMHO, make it super easy to develop web apps quickly and efficiently.
On top of that, you get auto-scaling, load balancing, and the ability to deploy on-premises and plug in any third-party library you need.
AppScale already comes with a dashboard and will soon be launching a new management service for your AppScale deployment(s).
If you're not particularly hung up on Python3 and PostgreSQL, all of the above seem to cover your requirements.
It's worth noting that opting for the GAE model means you opt for NoSQL and, so, postgres is probably not the best option.
Disclaimer: I'm part of the AppScale team and we're already helping companies develop and deliver their apps in the HIPAA compliance realm.
I chose Kubernetes which is a container orchestration technology specifically designed for Docker and also found that scaling is not just the responsibility of platform that the app is deployed on but also its depends on how the app is designed and coded. For that The Twelve-Factor App methodology is really helpful.
But I can't deploy database on Kubernetes because its not recommended by Kelsey Hightower(author of Kubernetes Up and Running) in his talk. So, for now I chose to deploy my database on a VM.
I am in a development team which have just about finished developing a system for a client which involves a MVC4 Web, a WCF service platform and a Windows Store App which communicates with the web that the service.
We are running Continuous Integration practices for the Web & Service solutions which include automated deployment to dev, test, acctest and production environments. Building, testing, configuring and deploying to production is one click and five minutes away.
The one huge pitfall that we've had in this project was the fact that we chose to develop the app as a Windows Store App without investigating deployment possibilities which do not involve publishing the application to Windows Store. This is a process called sideloading, and i will not go deep into the technical requirements which Microsoft impends to enable this.
Our client will be using the application on 20~ Surface Pro tablets, and we are investigating into an automated release/deploy process for the application. As of this moment, we are using OneDrive to manage build artifacts and let the customer IT admin download the artifact from there to manually install the app on all clients. In the future, however, it is very possible that the organization who ordered the system will deploy this worldwide and there will be a requirement to deploy the application to hundreds, if not thousands of clients.
We spent entire weeks investigating whether Windows Intune can be a good platform for automated deployment of the application. If an organization installs the Intune platform, it's clients get the Company Portal which is like a private Store, where we could upload the app and updates to it in the future. There was, however, one big minus with the Company Portal - it has NO update management for Store Apps. That is, releasing a new version of our application to the Company Portal does not work like releasing a patch or update of your app to the Windows Store - there's no notification that there is a new version, and the application does not update itself. It's basically a new application that needs to be downloaded and installed after the previous version has been uninstalled.
Has anyone developed Windows Store Line-Of-Business applications which you had to sideload to multiple clients, and if so - which solution did you choose for update/patch management?
I am experiencing the exact same problem. Intune is indeed limited and too complex for many scenarios at the same time. Another option to "deploy" LOB Windows Store apps is described here: http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/windows/apps/jj657971.aspx. This covers the well known powershell deployment which is not very practical.
However, I have found an early stage, unofficial POC project on codeplex which I am currently investigating. You might want to take look at this: https://bootybay.codeplex.com/
Is there any environment to test sending of mqseries messages without installing WebSphere MQ?
We are developing some application which will be cooperate with WebSphere MQ system and we are wondering how to test it without buying one. We just want to know whether we send are messages correctly.
I don't know of anything that simulates a QMgr. On the other hand, there are options for development using WebSphere MQ at low or no cost.
There is a free 90-day trial here.
You can run an Amazon Machine Image on which the IBM licenses are free for development use. (You still pay Amazon for the image usage, just not for the IBM licensing.)
If your company owns a current license and support of WebSphere Message Broker, you are entitled to put all of it's components, including WebSphere MQ, onto all developer desktops in your organization as described in the Infocenter here.
If you are developing software for resale, you can register as an IBM Business partner and gain access to WebSphere, Rational, Tivoli and InfoSphere software through the Software Access Catalog offering for $795 a year. That's per enterprise, not per person, by the way.
If your company is an IBM Business Partner and is planning to obtain IBM certification for many developers, the Value Plan Option costs $2k but reimburses up to $6k of testing fees and includes the Software Access Catalog.
I am a product manager for WebSphere MQ so I'm always interested in whether potential users are able to get access to WebSphere products that they need for trial or development purposes. If none of the options here meets your needs, and this goes for anyone reading this post, I'd invite you to contact me directly using the address in my profile.