Features And Utility Of Meap

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MEAP or mobile enterprise application platform is a comprehensive set of services and products that help an app developer to build mobile applications faster and more effectively. These platforms are essential to the app developer because it assists him/her to manage the diverse networks, devices, and user groups which are deployed for the purpose of app building. Opposed to standalone applications, any MEAP will provide a long term and comprehensive approach to deployment of mobility. In fact, the MEAPs are used by software designers all through a mobile solution’s lifecycle. This is the reason why cross platform apps are often built using the mobile enterprise application platform. Most enterprises today use MEAPs to create one mobile app that can be deployed across multiple mobile devices like tablets, smartphones, handhelds, and notebooks. No change in the underlying business logic is required if MEAPs are used in the cross platform app development process. A designer does not even have to learn special programming skills for developing apps using the MEAP; the technicalities involved are easy to understand.

Listed below are some special features and utilities that MEAPs serve:

1. The mobile enterprise application platforms provide support to several OS platforms and mobile devices at the same time without the need for a developer to write and maintain distinct set of codes.

2. All MEAPs are equipped with a mobile middleware server. This server ensures support to integration connectivity, application management, and security of the apps, devices, and platforms involved in the development process.

3. The MEAP solutions make writing of custom app extensions easy. This is possible because of the use of 4GL technology along with the platform; this technique does not dictate the writing of separate code sets. The toolset that is available with the custom application extension is shaped appropriately to support plug-ins for industry standard IDEs like eclipse.

4. The mobile enterprise application platform has undergone much change and advancement in the recent past. New toolsets that support the hybrid mode have been introduced into MEAP solutions. They make use of UI design SDKs like jQuery Mobile, Dojo Toolkit, and Sencha Touch that use JavaScript as the scripting language. This means that the modern JavaScript based mobile devices featuring API encapsulation can also be plugged into the IDEs like Appcelerator and PhoneGap. Therefore, native coding or 4GL coding are also not required when using the updated versions of MEAPs; custom apps can utilize all the features of a mobile device as soon as they are deployed in it.

5. MEAPs can integrate with more than one server data sources and thus enable leveraging of SOA services using the backend systems.

6. Central management of every mobile app that is deployed is possible only through the use of MEAPs. However, in this case, management of actual mobile devices that are tailored for the B2E scenario also has to be undertaken.

7. MEAPs help in enhancing the existing business platforms so that users may be able to access them anytime anywhere.

8. The mobile enterprise application platforms can also be run effectively on the cloud.

The above listed features account for the popularity of MEAPs in the app development world. What is more, a designer has to leverage tools and designing skills that he/she is already acquainted with in order to exercise expertise in the handling of MEAPs.

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