Bring Your Legacy Applications to the Mobile World - DOAG 2014
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The document outlines strategies for modernizing legacy applications, specifically Oracle Forms, to mobile platforms. It emphasizes the importance of having a mobile strategy and discusses tools and frameworks available for mobile development, such as Oracle Mobile Framework and Oracle Mobile Suite. Key considerations include understanding user needs, device capabilities, and developing a service layer to expose existing systems as web services.
Bring Your Legacy Applications to the Mobile World - DOAG 2014
- 1. Bring Your Legacy Applications to the Mobile World Mia Urman, AuraPlayer miauram@AuraPlayer.com
- 2. Mia Urman miaurman@auraplayer.com • Oracle Development Geek for 15 years. • 6 years at Oracle as a senior support analyst and local product manager of Forms and ADF. • CEO and Founder of AuraPlayer - Addressing Oracle Forms modernization challenges encountered at blue chip customers • Board member of ODTUG, Leader of the ilOUG Oracle Developer Group and presenter of Oracle tools at international conferences OOW, Kscope, UKOUG …
- 3. − What is your current Oracle Forms / Oracle EBS Version ? − Are you interested in mobility? − Have you begun to think about mobile strategy? − Do you have devices in the company today? What type - Tablet or smartphone? − What OS will they need to support - iOS / Android or also Window CE / Blackberry? − Do you have Mobile developers in house? About You
- 4. Today’s Plan Building a Legacy to Mobile Strategy – Why Go Mobile? – Things to Consider The Tools – Introducing Oracle Mobile Framework – Understanding Architecture The Challenge – How we do it Moving Forward
- 6. GLOBAL MOBILE 3G SUBSCRIBERS 6 Copyright © 2012, Oracle and/or its affiliates. All rights reserved.
- 7. Enterprise Mobility! TWO THIRDS OF THE WORKFORCE WILL OWN A SMARTPHONE BY 2016, AND 40% OF THE WORKFORCE WILL BE MOBILE" SOURCE: GARTNER 2013"
- 8. Building Your Mobile Strategy
- 9. Do you have a Mobile Strategy?
- 10. Understand your business from Users “Tell Me More About That” • Observe real end users doing real work: Can we make them more productive? • Watch surrounding and environmental challenges: Can we improve employees user experience. • Are users missing data to do their jobs? • Enhance data gathering: cameras, SMS, social media, personal , location, voice
- 11. Analyze Mobile Requirements • What OS: iOS / Android / Windows • Device type, Screen size • Device Features / Capabilities • Offline / Connected • Processing power • BYOD? • Types of Users – Occasional, Internal/external • Type of Applications – Browser Based / Hybrid
- 12. • No mouse, Function keys • Using gestures • Harder to type • Smaller screen / Less screens • Difficult to touch small elements • Slower network – Disconnects • Security Consider Mobile Challenges
- 13. Are you ready for mobile? • Devices • New development tools and environments • Xcode / Android • Development machines • Mobile developers • Mobile Infrastructure • Security • Service Bus • Load
- 14. Legacy to Mobile Strategy
- 15. Mobile Strategy “We don’t need mobile for that system…”
- 16. Mobile Strategy “We’ll just use our existing web application…”
- 17. Mobile Strategy “We can run our system using Remote Desktop…”
- 18. DO NOT run FORMS on the mobile run your BUSINESS on the mobile
- 21. Mobile Application Framework Oracle Mobile Suite Oracle Mobile Cloud Services Oracle’s Mobility Products Oracle Mobile Security Suite Service Bus / SOA Suite
- 22. Copyright © 2014, Oracle and/or its affiliates. All rights reserved
- 23. Copyright © 2014, Oracle and/or its affiliates. All rights reserved.
- 24. Wizard Based Mobile Development Deploy to iOS or Android
- 25. Copyright © 2014, Oracle and/or its affiliates. All rights reserved
- 27. Components
- 28. Business Services Development § Code logic with Java § Lightweight JVM § Easy access to Remote - Web service – SOAP – REST XML, REST JSON § Local Business Logic – Java Classes – SQLite DB - Portable, lightweight relational database
- 29. Do you still carry around one of these?
- 30. Device Features Interaction § Leverages Apache Cordova § Drag and drop to use – Email – SMS – Contacts – GPS – Camera § Or access programmatically Copyright © 2014, Oracle and/or its affiliates. All rights reserved
- 31. Copyright © 2014, Oracle and/or its affiliates. All rights reserved
- 32. Data Caching Challenges § Mobile devices can lose/turn off connectivity § Offline access to data is a common requirement § But it will increase the complexity of your application § If you cache data locally you must consider – When to cache the data – How much data to cache – When to synchronize updates – Recording the order of updates – How to deal with synchronization conflicts – Security of the data if the device is lost Security
- 33. How Do We Do It ?
- 34. • Understanding the business process we want to translate to the small screen. • Selecting what input and output data we to run the business process. How We Do It: Step 1 Define Business Process and Data • Identifying expected results What output data and messages do we want to receive from the Forms system • Decide Navigation of user through the app
- 35. • Expose business processes as services • Use pre-built APIs supplied by providers to build connected systems • Create your own Services using development tools How We Do It: Step 2 Create the Service Layer
- 36. Creating a PLSQL Service Jdeveloper Tutorial • Create ADF DataControls for Webservice URL – REST/SOAP
- 37. Introducing AuraPlayer Unlock Oracle Forms Systems as Services Expose existing systems as Webservices without writing one line of code Same System Many UI / Devices
- 38. Oracle 11g DB DMZ External Network FireWall Internal Network Desktop Solution Architecture One System – For both Desktop and Any UI
- 39. Create an Oracle Forms Service Layer
- 40. • Create AMX pages and design new mobile UI How We Do It: Step 3 Create Mobile UI - Jdeveloper
- 41. How We Do It: Step 4 Define TaskFlow with Validations • Define the navigation flow between the pages • Add validations that should occur upon success or failure of events
- 42. Let’s See it in Action Demo time!
- 43. ü Define the Business Process ü Expose the system as a Webservice ü Create the UI and Navigation ü Run Your Mobile App! ü ADF Mobile on iPad Demo Demo Oracle Forms to Mobile: The Process
- 44. Moving Forward
- 45. Protect Enterprise Information Reaching Mobile Devices. Access Enterprise Information Implementing a Mobile Strategy Key Themes Integration Mobile Strategy Security Multiplatform MAINFRAME Copyright © 2014, Oracle and/or its affiliates. All rights reserved.
- 46. Moving Forward Considerations For Modernization Projects • Asses Your Requirements • What business processes do we need to mobilize • What platforms do we need to deploy to? • Analysis of Your Existing System • Where does the business logic sit today? • What data will I need the go • Define Mobilization Goals • Wire framing • Timeline and Budget • Decide on Implementation Method • MAF, HTML5, iOS/Android
- 47. My Blogs § Tips and Tricks § Common Bugs § How to documents § Presentations www.ADFMobileInfo.com www.OracleFormsInfo.com
- 48. More Information § Mia Urman - miaurman@auraplayer.com @miaurman § Mobile on OTN § Oracle Mobile Blog § Oracle Forms Community Blog § @Jdeveloper, Facebook.com/Jdeveloper § AuraPlayer – www.auraplayer.com or info@auraplayer.com @auraplayer