I wrote a series of mobile applications back in '06 for use by our sales reps in the field. I opted to make them browser based so it was essentially the same WebSphere to U2 development I was already doing for our public facing web site. The only difference was that I stripped out javascript and images to make performance reasonable and sized everything to fit a small screen. We were using Palm Treos and the time and the horrible Blazer browser barely supported javascript, if at all. We're currently on Blackberries, and the app migration to the new platform consisted of minor tweaks to a single stylesheet. The web apps use Active Directory for authentication and everything runs over SSL, so it's plenty secure. Of course, the primary drawback of this approach is that if your data service gets dropped while you're right in the middle of a multi-step process (like placing an order), you're liable to have to start over.
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