Mobile Website DevelopmentSoftware Tools Overview

Facilitated by:Michael WakaheTawi Commercial Services LtdJul 2011

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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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