BlackBerry MDS Integration Service
The BlackBerry® MDS Integration Service allows you to install, update, and manage BlackBerry® MDS Runtime Applications on BlackBerry devices. The BlackBerry MDS Integration Service supports standard methods of integrating wireless applications and enterprise applications, for example, by allowing BlackBerry MDS Runtime Applications to access and use web services on an application server.
Your organization’s developers can create BlackBerry MDS Runtime Applications using the BlackBerry® MDS Studio or the BlackBerry® Plug-in for Microsoft® Visual Studio®, and publish those applications to the BlackBerry MDS Application Repository. Using the BlackBerry Manager, you can install, upgrade, and remove BlackBerry MDS Runtime Applications on BlackBerry devices over the wireless network, and you can manage and quarantine different versions of BlackBerry MDS Runtime Applications.
Feature |
Description |
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installation options |
By default, users can search for and install the BlackBerry MDS Runtime Applications that are stored in the BlackBerry MDS Application Repository, using the BlackBerry MDS Control Center on their BlackBerry devices. You can prevent users from searching for the applications. You can also make the installation, upgrade, or removal of specific BlackBerry MDS Runtime Applications from BlackBerry devices mandatory. |
encrypted communication |
The BlackBerry MDS Integration Service encrypts all of the data that it sends to and receives from BlackBerry devices. |
troubleshooting tools |
The BlackBerry Manager displays a series of error messages when unexpected behavior occurs, such as when an application cannot connect to a content server. You can respond to possible issues by quarantining a BlackBerry MDS Runtime Application on a single user’s BlackBerry device or in the BlackBerry MDS Application Repository. |
message monitoring |
BlackBerry MDS Runtime Applications can request data from an application server or web server using a series of messages. Web servers return the requested data using the same message format. You can monitor the messages that BlackBerry MDS Runtime Applications send to or recieve from the application servers or web servers that host application content. |
PKI-compliant application certificates |
The BlackBerry MDS Studio creates certificates and uses them to sign applications that comply with the PKI X.509 standard. You can use these certificates to encrypt the connections that the BlackBerry MDS Integration Service establishes to sensitive content. |
control over user access and permissions |
You can configure and assign BlackBerry MDS Integration Service device policies to users and user groups to control how users discover and access BlackBerry MDS Runtime Applications, and to define whether BlackBerry MDS Runtime Applications can access data from other applications on BlackBerry devices. |
performance management |
You can specify message queue limits for data that BlackBerry MDS Runtime Applications send and receive. |