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Developing Mobile Apps with PeopleTools

Jim J. Marion

Principal Sales Consultant

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Program Agenda

Good transaction candidates

Various build and deployment options

Examples

Connectivity

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Bookstore located at Moscone West, Level 2

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Design Recommendations

Minimize data entry

– Typing is bad

Touch and gestures

– Large buttons, lots of space

– Handled by most mobile toolkits

More spacing, less data

– Small form factor

Start small, get some quick wins

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Good Candidates

Anything read-only

– Eliminates many issues:

Prompt tables

Data marshalling

Self-service

– Manager, employee, student, supplier, etc

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Oracle Solutions

AWE e-mail approvals

Feeds

iPad certified (8.52+)

Domain specific apps:

– Mobile Expenses

– Mobile Inventory

– Listen for more domain specific apps announcements this week!

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Mobile Options

Use with iPad – 8.52 certified

– Best with home pages designed for mobile

2 column layout

Pagelet Wizard

Component Interface based Web Services and your favorite toolkit

Integration Broker REST and jQuery Mobile (or other

JavaScript/HTML)

Native Applications (REST or Web Services)

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CI Based Web Services

Create a CI for a component, and then expose through Web Service

wizard

Create pages, components, and CI’s for each prompt table used by the

component

Consume the WSDL’s for the web services within a tool like

JDeveloper

Build UI in development tool (JDeveloper)

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CI Based Web Services

Advantages

– Drag/drop designer support

– Easy to prototype

Disadvantages

– # of services required can reach a ridiculous level

– Handling security

– Passing parameters between service operations requires code

– Code can be difficult to write

Pro’s/Con’s

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REST Based Web Services and HTML

Create REST service metadata (Documents, services, service

operations, etc)

Write REST handler PeopleCode

– CI’s, SQLExec, Rowset, etc

– Output HTML, JSON, or XML result

Create HTML templates to consume REST services

Offline? Use LocalStorage/JavaScript to sync when connected

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REST Based Web Services and HTML

Advantages:

– Security handled by web browser (basic auth over SSL)

– Light-weight

– Flexible

Disadvantage:

– All coding, no designer support (drag/drop, etc)

– Can be difficult to maintain (depends on code complexity and standards)

Pro’s/Con’s

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Web Based Apps

Advantages:

– Deployment model

– Multiple device support

Disadvantages:

– No access to native phone features:

Camera, voice recorder, GPS, navigation, contacts, etc

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Native Apps

Advantages:

– Access to native features:

Camera, voice recorder, GPS, navigation, contacts, etc

Disadvantages

– Deployment model (app store, etc)

– Per-device development

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Network Connectivity

BlackBerry and BBES can access internal resources (PeopleSoft, etc)

VPN

External gateway/firewall/DMZ

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Other Mobile Sessions

What When Where

CON8963 - PeopleSoft Mobile Inventory

Management: Methodist Hospital System Customer

Story

Monday, Oct 1, 12:15 PM -

1:15 PM

Westin San

Francisco -

Concordia

GEN11554 - General Session: Extend Oracle

Applications to Mobile Devices with Oracle’s Mobile

Technologies

Monday, Oct 1, 1:45 PM -

2:45 PM

Moscone West -

3002/3004

CON9196 - PeopleSoft PeopleTools Roadmap:

Mobile Applications

Tuesday, Oct 2, 10:15 AM -

11:15 AM

Moscone West -

3009

CON3824 - Mobile-Enable Oracle Fusion Middleware

and Enterprise Applications with Oracle ADF

Tuesday, Oct 2, 11:45 AM -

12:45 PM Moscone South - 306

HOL9967 - Developing Applications for Mobile iOS

and Android Devices with Oracle ADF Mobile:

Hands-on Lab

Every day, various times,

see schedule builder

Marriott Marquis -

Salon 10A

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Information Portal Hosted & Mobile

PeopleBooks

Doc Home Pages and Enterprise Integration Point

Maps

Video Feature Overviews Cumulative Feature Overview & Upgrade Resource Report Tools

Business Process Maps & Entity Relationship Diagrams

Learn More PeopleSoft Information Development Resources

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