Questions tagged [ibm-mobilefirst]

IBM MobileFirst Platform Foundation (formerly IBM Worklight Foundation) helps organizations extend their business to mobile devices. It provides a mobile application platform to build, run and manage mobile applications.

IBM MobileFirst Platform Foundation -- Formerly known as IBM Worklight Foundation -- helps you extend your business to mobile devices. It is designed to provide an open, comprehensive platform to build, test, run and manage native, hybrid and mobile web apps. IBM MobileFirst Platform Foundation can help reduce both app development and maintenance costs, improve time-to-market and enhance mobile app governance and security.

Searching Stack Overflow using the old #worklight tag will also show a wealth of historical questions & answers.


IBM MobileFirst Platform Foundation is comprised of five components:

  • IBM MobileFirst Studio offers leading tools for native and hybrid development that help maximize code reuse and accelerate development.

  • IBM MobileFirst Server is mobile-optimized middleware that serves as a gateway between applications, back-end systems and cloud-based services.

  • IBM MobileFirst Device Runtime Components offer runtime client application program interfaces (API) designed to enhance security, governance and usability.

  • IBM MobileFirst Application Center enables you to set up an enterprise app store that manages the distribution of production-ready mobile apps.

  • IBM MobileFirst Console is an administrative GUI designed to provide real-time operational analytics for the server, adapters, applications and push services to help you manage, monitor and instrument mobile apps.


With IBM MobileFirst Platform you can:

  • Support multiple mobile operating environments and devices with the simplicity of a single, shared code base.

  • Utilize your preferred development tools with the command line interpreter for MobileFirst Platform developers.

  • Connect and synchronize with enterprise data, applications and cloud services, including IBM BlueMix mobile services.

  • Safeguard mobile security at the device, application, data and network layer.

  • Manage your mobile app portfolio from one central interface.

Source: IBM MobileFirst Platform

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IBM Mobile first 7.1 - Please suggest how load test can be performed for push notification

Can any one suggest me how load test can be performed for push notification on worklight server. Is there any tool which can be used. We expect to send approximately 10K messages every day and in future approximately 50K. As per our architecture the…
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Worklight 6.3 push notification via GCM does not reach android device

I am developing an application on IBM Worklight 6.3 and application uses push notification. The application uses IBM Websphere application server 8.5.5.0. Below are the details which we have to make push notification work. For android code, have…
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Adding cordova plugin in MobileFirst Project

I need to implement PubNub pushnotification in my MobileFirst project. For that implementation i done the following things. In my android native folder :assets->www->default->worklight->cordova_plugins.js Here I added the following code { …
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MFPF on IBM Container using Cloudant doesn't work

I followed the steps below and choose Cloudant for it's database. Run IBM MobileFirst Platform Foundation on IBM Containers https://developer.ibm.com/mobilefirstplatform/documentation/getting-started-7-1/bluemix/run-foundation-on-bluemix/ It seems…
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IBM Mobilefirst Device Management Get Flag from MFP console

IBM MobileFirst™ Platform Foundation maintains a database table of device IDs, among other device-related metadata, to enable this feature. In addition to the device ID column in the database, a status column is also kept. The possible status values…
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push notification causes app to crash

I'm creating an app using IBM MobileFirst Platform Foundation 7.0 that has push notifications support. At this point, iOS devices can successfully receive notifications while the app isn't running. However, if I touch the banner message from a…
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IBM Mobilefirst 7.0 - Can we Integrate Estimote Ibeacons with IBM MobileFirst

Currently I'm working on IBM Mobilefirst and estimote ibeacon Integration. I didn't found any document for developing Hybrid Application using estimote Ibeacon API. Can we integrate Estimote Ibeacons with IBM MobileFirst.
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Cannot compile Java adapter using adapter-builder task (ANT) in MFP v7

We have been using the adapter-builder task (com.worklight.ant.builders.AdapterBuilderTask) to compile our MFP adapters for several weeks. We just started now adopting Java adapters in our MFP apps but we cannot compile them with the adapter-builder…
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Worklight Server/DB down, Hybrid app shows a dialog with "Server is temporarily unavailable". No error callback?

we have a case where the Worklight Server's (v6.1.0.02-20150509) database was down, and so the server could not connect and so the hybrid app then presented the below dialog. We did not provide this dialog and its content in the app, so this must…
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MobileFirst 7.0 Server stuck "Deploying" when trying to deploy a .wlapp file to Tomcat

While after finishing installing and configuring successfully the MobileFirst 7.0 Server, I'm getting the issue that the MF server is stucking in "Deploying" when I try to Deploy Application => Selecting a MF studio /bin folder .wlapp file. And…
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MobileFirst Platform JavaScript adapter can't get the parameters through WLResourceRequest

I'm using mobilefirst platform v7, and I send post request using the WLResourceRequest/sendFormParameters api, however, I can't get the submitted parameters from js adapter side... belows are sample code: var resourceRequest = new…
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SQL Adapter Invocation failure in IBM MobileFirst

I'm trying to insert data to a database using a SQL Adapter in IBM mobilefirst platform, however my code reaches the failure function... main.js: function insertData(){ alert("Function InsertData called"); var fname =…
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Tapping on the app icon does not display the notification in the app

I am using the Event source-based notifications in hybrid applications sample from…
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Missing Secure attributes in cookies: WL_PERSISTENT_COOKIE and testcookie

In a security scan result, I received the following error: "Missing Secure Attribute in Encrypted Session (SSL) Cookie" for WL_PERSISTENT_COOKIE and testcookie. I don't know how to set the secure attribute for these cookies, from the websphere…
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Obfuscation in IBM MobileFirst 6.3

I want to obfuscate javascript files in my worklight project. is it a good practice to obfuscate the javascript files in a worklight application?. is there a way to do obfuscation using Gulp in worklight application?.