Category: Service Integration Strategies

In a recent Mobile Web survey, nearly 75% of Web developers use Geolocation, making it the most popular HTML5 API.13 When building applications that are location aware, it is common to have a map view displaying points of interest or directions. On the Web, Geolocation14 in conjunction with Google Maps15 provide a very useful API for building map…

Deciding which service access strategy to implement depends on several factors. If you are already building Web applications today you may already have an established pattern for data access on the Web. If so, you may want to continue with this strategy for consistency purposes. Fortunately, when implemented correctly, jQuery Mobile will integrate very well…

In our prior example we saw how to POST form data to the server. In this example, we will use a GET request to fetch data from the server. This example will retrieve a listing of movies from the server and display the results within a jQuery Mobile JSP page (see Figure 9–7). Figure 9–7. Movies fetched…

For comparison purposes, it will be valuable to see a server-side implementation of our registration use case. Again, we will have a registration form that allows users to opt-in to receive discounted or free movie tickets (see Figure 9–5). Figure 9–5. Registration form for server-side POST with MVC The page markup for our registration page is very…

In this section, we are going to focus our attention on server-side access strategies. On the Web, a very common strategy is integrating with a model-view-controller (MVC) framework. We will see two MVC examples that will be very similar in style to our client-side examples. In our first example, we will convert our client-side registration…

The previous example was a use case that sent a GET request to Twitter’s API. GET requests are very common when reading from an API and the $.ajax method will default to this type when none is specified. In our next example, we will create our own RESTful API that allows our users to send POST requests. Let’s create…

In our first client-side example we are going to integrate jQuery Mobile with Twitter’s RESTful API. Twitter is a very popular social media site which allows users to send out, or “tweet” brief messages about topics, events, or random opinions. In our movie app, it may be valuable to allow users to search Twitter in…

Most social media sites have a public API for accessing their data. Twitter,1 LinkedIn,2 and Facebook3 integrations are very common on the Web and RESTful integrations are common access strategies for each of them. In this section, we are going to integrate jQuery Mobile with two different RESTful APIs so we can see how well this strategy runs…