Providers

Providers are the underlying implementation that present channel content to users on the mobile Portal Desktop. They adapt the interfaces of generic resources.

Provider content sources can include:

• Content in a file

• Output from an application

• Output from a service

Providers, which are Java class files, deliver content in the proper format for each type of mobile device. As a mobile Portal Desktop is created, each provider is queried for the content of its associated channel.

The following new providers are added to the default containers:

• WirelessDesktopDispatcherProvider

• WirelessJSPDesktopProvider

For details on using channels, containers, and providers to configure the mobile Portal Desktop, see Managing the Mobile Portal Desktop.