Deploying the Salesforce Sample Client Application on Mobile Devices

The following procedures describe how to install the Salesforce sample client application on a BlackBerry smartphone or on a Palm Treo device running the Palm OS or Windows Mobile software.

To Deploy the Salesforce Sample Client Application on a BlackBerry Smartphone

Install and deploy the Salesforce sample client application to a BlackBerry smartphone:

1. Install the BlackBerry Desktop Manager from the User Tools CD to a PC.

2. Unzip the sjsmep-client-1_1-fcs.zip bundle and extract the files to your PC.

3. Ensure that your BlackBerry smartphone is connected to the PC's USB interface.

4. Select Start->All Programs->BlackBerry->Desktop Manager.

   The BlackBerry Desktop Manager is displayed.

5. Double-click the Application Loader icon.

   The Application Loader Wizard is displayed.

6. Click Next at the Welcome screen.

   The Add Application screen is displayed.

7. Select Add.

8. Browse to and select the salesforce_ws.alx file.

9. Click OK.

   The screen shows the Salesforce client application that you selected and indicates that the next operation to be performed is to install that client application on your mobile device.

10. Click Next until the client application is installed on your BlackBerry device.

11. Click Finish when you are done.

To Deploy the Salesforce Client Application on a Palm Treo Smartphone

If you are using Windows Mobile, you can either load the client files onto your device using the Microsoft ActiveSync software and a USB cable or load them over the air. If you are using PalmOS, you must load the files over the air.

Install and deploy the sample Salesforce client on a Palm Treo smartphone running the Palm OS or Windows Mobile software:

1. Ensure that your mobile device's software (Palm installation CDs for PalmOS or Windows Mobile) has been installed on a PC.

2. Ensure that the J9 Virtual Machine (VM) software has been installed on your mobile device.

   You can get the J9 VM software from IBM.

3. If you are loading the client files over the air, follow these steps:

   1. Unzip the sgmp-client-1_1-fcs.zip bundle, extracting the files to a web server that you can access from your mobile device.

      The clients are in the install-dir/samples directory, where install-dir is the directory where you unzipped the bundle.

   2. Click the IBM Java icon on your mobile device to start the J9 emulator.

   3. Click Install.

   4. In the URL field, type the path to the salesforce-ws.jad file on the web server that you unzipped in step a.

   5. Click OK.

4. If you are using a USB cable to load the client files, follow these steps:

   1. Unzip the sgmp-client-1_1-fcs.zip bundle, extracting the files to the ActiveSync Folder for J9 on your PC Desktop.

   2. Connect the cable from the device to the PC where you extracted the client files.

   3. Bring up ActiveSync on the PC.

   4. Click Sync.

      The files are transferred.