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Mobile Website DevelopmentSoftware Tools Overview
Facilitated by:Michael WakaheTawi Commercial Services LtdJul 2011
Table of Contents
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Firefox 4 Eclipse 3.6 (Helios) Tomcat 7 Ant 1.7 MySQL 5 Gimp
Firefox 4
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Free and open source web browser
Descended from the Mozilla Application Suite
Second most widely used browser
Runs on various operating systems
Firefox 4
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Firefox 4 released in March 2011
Has various add-ons that can assist in mobile
web development
Add-ons are developed by third parties
Eclipse 3.6 (Helios)
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A multi-language software development
environment
Comprises of an integrated development
environment (IDE) and an extensible plug-in
system.
Eclipse 3.6 (Helios)
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Written mostly in Java & can be used to
develop applications in Java
Released under the terms of the Eclipse Public
License
Is free and open source software
Eclipse 3.6 (Helios)
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Highly favoured in industry
Many other software IDEs based on Eclipse
e.g. Aptana
Apache Tomcat 7
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An open source servlet container
Implements the Java Servlet and the
JavaServer Pages (JSP) specifications
Should not be confused with the Apache web
server
Apache Tomcat 7
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Runs on various operating systems
Is a reference implementation
Other servlet containers include JBoss,
Weblogic, Websphere, Glassfish
Will deploy mobile websites on it
Apache Tomcat 7
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Runs on various operating systems
Is a reference implementation
Other servlet containers include JBoss,
Weblogic, Websphere, Glassfish
Will deploy mobile websites on it
Apache Ant 1.7
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For automating software build processes
Successor of the Make, implemented in Java
Uses XML to describe the build process and its
dependencies,
Is open source software
MySQL 5
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Is a relational database management system
(RDBMS)
Runs as a server
SQL = Structured Query Language
Is free and open source, has commercial
version
MySQL 5
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Runs on various operating systems
Very popular for rapid development e.g. LAMP
Has command line tools and GUI tools, some
from 3rd party
Gimp
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GNU Image Manipulation Program
Free software raster graphics editor
Can accomplish essential image editing tasks
such as resizing, editing & cropping photos
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