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BlackBerry MDS

The BlackBerry® Mobile Data System is a flexible framework for application development that you can use to add and manage applications in your organization's environment. As a component of the BlackBerry® Enterprise Server, the BlackBerry MDS offers security, wireless connectivity, and manageability options. It also supports several preferred development methods that you can use to create wireless applications and deliver them to BlackBerry devices. To simplify the integration of wireless applications with existing applications and systems, the BlackBerry MDS uses standards-based methods and protocols.

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BlackBerry MDS Services

You can use the BlackBerry MDS Services to send wireless applications to BlackBerry devices, and to maintain and manage wireless applications on BlackBerry devices. The BlackBerry MDS Services are designed to provide wireless connectivity between applications on BlackBerry devices and your organization's existing applications. The BlackBerry MDS Services include the following components:

  • BlackBerry MDS Integration Service: The BlackBerry MDS Integration Service enables BlackBerry MDS Runtime Applications to interact with back-end systems using web services or direct database connections. You can install the BlackBerry MDS Integration Service when you install the BlackBerry Enterprise Server.
  • BlackBerry MDS Connection Service: The BlackBerry MDS Connection Service processes requests for web content from the BlackBerry® Browser or from BlackBerry Java® Applications. The BlackBerry MDS Connection Service also manages TCP/IP and HTTP connections between BlackBerry Applications and the applications that reside on your organization’s application servers, web servers, or databases that are located inside your organization's firewall.

BlackBerry MDS development tools

Developers in your organization can use development tools to create the following types of wireless applications for BlackBerry devices: BlackBerry Browser Applications, BlackBerry Java Applications, and BlackBerry MDS Runtime Applications.

For more information about BlackBerry MDS development tools, visit www.blackberry.com/developers.

BlackBerry MDS device software

BlackBerry devices use the following BlackBerry MDS device software to run BlackBerry Applications:

  • BlackBerry® MDS Runtime: runs BlackBerry MDS Runtime Applications
  • BlackBerry APIs and Java® ME: runs BlackBerry Java Applications; standard on BlackBerry devices
  • BlackBerry Browser: runs BlackBerry Browser Applications and is standard on BlackBerry devices

To download the BlackBerry MDS Runtime, visit www.blackberry.com.

For more information about the BlackBerry MDS and the types of BlackBerry Applications, visit www.blackberry.com/developers to see the BlackBerry Mobile Data System Technical Overview.

Parent topic: BlackBerry Enterprise Server components and features

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