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Wireless Tools

This document describes the tools you can use to develop and maintain Oracle9iAS Wireless. Each section of this document presents a different topic. These sections include:

• Section 9.1, "Overview"

• Section 9.2, "The Service Designer"

• Section 9.4, "The User Manager"

• Section 9.5, "Wireless Customization"

9.1 Overview

Wireless provides a set of Web-based tools to help you create, manage, and deliver mobile services. These tools include wizards for developing and managing repository objects, and utilities for managing the server and deploying Wireless. Wireless provides the following development tools:

• Service Designer

• Content Manager

• User Manager

• Wireless Customization

These tools are role-specific; users can only access tools associated with the roles that the User Administrator has assigned to them. For example, a user assigned to the Content Management Tool role can only access the Content Management Tool tool and a user with Content Developer privileges can only access the Service Designer.

Wireless provides the following user roles:

Table 9-1 Wireless User Roles

User Role	Description	Available Tools
Administrators	The Wireless administrator, a user who can access all of the webtools and manage the system from the OEM console.	Service Designer Content Manager User Manager Wireless Customization
Designers	Users assigned the Designers role perform the following functions: Create, modify, and delete adapters from the Wireless Repository. Create, modify, delete, and test master services and master alerts. Manage transformers for logical devices. Develop applications using Mobile XML. Develop, modify and delete data feeders. Develop, modify and delete presets. Develop location-based services Develop, modify, and delete regions used for creating location-based services.	Service Designer
Organizers	Users assigned the Organizers role perform the following functions: Manage service folders. Create services based on master services. Create alerts based on master alerts. Deploy applications to groups. Assign regions to location-based services.	Content Manager
System	Users assigned the System role manage the system.	Wireless systems management functions (through the OEM console)
Helpdesk	Users assigned the Helpdesk role perform the following functions: Check user profiles and services. Create new groups and users. Manage user access privileges. Assign different roles to a user.	User Manager
Consumer	Users assigned the consumer role are end users of Wireless services. End-users can customize their own services either from a desktop or from a device. Customization for end-users includes: Create Logical Devices to receive alerts. Set Presets Reorder services. Set Locationmarks.	Wireless Customization
Guest User	An unregistered user.	Wireless Customization

Users assigned to the Administrators, Designers, Organizers, System, and Helpdesk roles also have end-user privileges.

9.2 The Service Designer

You use the Service Designer to create and modify objects in the Wireless repository. These objects include:

Table 9-2 Objects in the Wireless Repository

Object Type	Description
Folder	You can use folders to group services. Folders make services available to end users. Every user has a "home" folder. This contains the services, usually referenced by an alias, that the user can access. A user can also access any service in a folder owned by a group to which the user belongs.
Master service	The master service object implements the service and invokes a specific adapter. You can associate a custom transformer with a master service. Custom transformers are service- and device-specific. They can be used by only one device and one master service.
Preset Definitions	Preset definitions, which are specifically associated with a service, enable users to personalize services by entering their own input parameters to an application by creating presets. When a user requests a service, a service loads the user-defined input parameters, (or presets). Typically, the service may list these presets for the user, who must select an item to execute the application.
Master Alert	A template for an alert service, that specifies the content data feeder for an alert and the type of trigger parameters used by the alert.
Data Feeder	A data feeder is a repository object that retrieves content from both internal and external content sources and converts that content into a standard XML format.
Adapter	Adapter objects represent the Wireless interface to content sources. Adapter objects have an attribute called classes. This attribute identifies the archive file that contains the actual Java implementation of the adapter.
Transformer	A transformer converts the content returned by the Wireless adapters. Transformer types include: Result transformers, which convert Adapter Result content into SimpleResult content. Device transformers, which convert SimpleResult content into the final target format. A device transformer can be either the default transformer for a logical device, or a custom transformer, which is used to render a specific master service for a specific logical device.
Logical Device	A logical device object associates a physical device or an abstract device, such as email, with a transformer.
Regions	Wireless uses regions to enable developers to assign a location to a service, making the service location-based, unique to a specified area.

The Service Designer provides a set of wizards for the creation of master services, master alerts, logical devices, and data feeds. The Service Designer's wizards present the creation of each of these components as a discrete task broken down into a series of steps. The Service Designer prompts you through each step, ensuring that you successfully create the component quickly and easily.

In addition to these wizards, the Service Designer includes a screen for testing and creating transformers. Transformers, in the form of XSLT stylesheets or Java classes, convert the content returned by Wireless adapters into the format best suited to a particular platform. Using the Service Designer, you can both test and create transformers. The tool allows you to view and edit adapter input parameters and the transformers of the source content. See the Oracle9iAS Developer's Guide for more information on Wireless Edition XML.

Using the Service Designer, you can create location-based master services, which are are visible to users at specific locations. The Service Designer enables developers to create these services by assigning a location to a master service from the spatial data repository. The tool enables you to view a spacial object as a map image with its corresponding geometry. In addition, the tool enables you to access, view, and modify the data stored in the spatial database in the repository. See Chapter 10 for more information on the Service Designer.

9.3 The Content Manager Tool

The Content Management Tool enables you to create services and alerts based on the master services and master alerts created by Content Developers. The Content Manager Tool tool enables you to assign services, alerts, and topics to each user group. Using the Content Manager Tool, you can organize the wireless portal in a business context appropriate to a user group. The Content Manager Tool provides you with wizards to ensure that you create services easily. See Chapter 11 for more information on the Content Manager Tool.

9.4 The User Manager

This tool enables you to perform such help desk functions as creating and modifying users and groups and assigning services to users and groups. See Chapter 12 for more information on the User Manager.

Manager enables you to centrally manage property files at both the server and site levels.

9.5 Wireless Customization

Wireless Customization enables users to personalize their device portals from a desktop computer or from a mobile device by providing default pages for modifying service, folder, user, group and other repository objects. Wireless Customization enables users to set frequently entered parameters, such as email addresses, passwords, or PINs.

See Chapter 13 for more information on Wireless Customization. See Chapter 14 for more information on personalizing services from a device.