Mobile Portal Accelerator

Just got a chance to evaluate Mobile Portal Accelerator a accelerator provided by IBM to ease development of portlets for mobile devices. It sits on top of WebSphere Portal Server with a toolkit for RAD or RSA to develop mobile portlets. It extends the capabilities of WebSPhere Portal Server to limitless of mobile devices.
Some unique points of MPA are listed below:

• Supports 9000 mobile devices. include Android, Apple iPhone, Apple iPad, RIM BlackBerry, Microsoft Windows Mobile and Nokia Symbian-based devices.


• Supports almost all the browsers supported by WebSphere Portal. Support for IE 6.0 +, Mozilla Firefox 3.0+, Apple Safari and many more.


• Support for JSR 168 and 286 portlet specification.


• A uniquly provided subscription of MPA update will provide support for all the new devices introduced in the market.

So if anyone interesed ot looking for a tool to develop mobile portlets using WebSphere Portal environment can surely go for this accelerator. It requires WebSphere Portal, WAS and RAD or RSA. Evaluation versions are already out for MPA 6.0 and 7.0. So you can download then and start evaluating the software. Sample portlets are alredy provided. I have the toolkit evaluation version with me will try to attach them for the benefit.