In the previous post I showed some screenshots of the simple JQueryMobile app that is hosted by the Apache Isis‘ online demo app, demonstrating one way of using the built-in Restful API. In this post, I want to look at the JQueryMobile code in a little more detail.

The app consists of a single html page, index.html, along with a number of supporting Javascript files. We start by bring in the Javascript libraries, most notably JQueryMobile and JQuery:
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We’re currently working towards 0.2.0 of Apache Isis (incubating), and one of the most significant new areas of functionality is the REST API that it automatically provides through the json-viewer component.  As you can probably guess from the name, this viewer provides a REST interface which exposes JSON representations of the domain object models.

However, JSON representations do not a user interface make; instead the idea is that the developer will write either custom or generic UIs to consume those representations.  As an example of such an app (and by way of learning a little more Javascript) I’ve put together a very simple mobile app using the recently-released JQueryMobile framework.

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