Re: [aerogear-dev] What is it about

Ashish, I will respond inline. On Wednesday, April 17, 2013 12:46:59 PM, ashish wrote: AeroGear is about providing libraries to make it easier to expose Java EE services to remote clients AND to make those exposed services easier to consume. I'm afraid I don't understand your question. Are you asking why would someone use AeroGear instead of writing code to consume those services directly or are you asking why won't someone go to your mobile web page and skip the native app all together? PhoneGap is Adobe's commercial offering of Cordova. Cordova is an Apache project which provides an API and a container to Javascript applications. This API and Container bridge the Javascript application's WebView to the underlying OS and allow you to write applications which use a phone's camera, accelerometer, etc. This lets you write native-ish apps with HTML5, CSS, and Javascript and submit the to the various app stores. Jquery Mobile is a library which provides mobile focused themes, events, styles, widgets, and utilities to a Jquery based JavaScript application. This can be used with a website hosted on a server or in a Cordova Application. AeroGear in this situation serves as a communication library. It provides a wrapper around native storage, networking life cycle, object marshalling, and networking error handling. We try to have our APIs among the various platforms be similar enough that knowledge and design lessons learned on one platform can be applied to other native platforms. I hope this helps some. Summers