Sun Microsystems Sun Java System Content Delivery Server 5 - Manual (Page 88)

70 Administrator Guide • 2005Q4
■ System capabilities - Capabilities primarily used by the Content Delivery Server.
They define capabilities that a device must have to perform Content Delivery
Server functionality. For instance, system capabilities define whether a device
supports Short Message Service (SMS) or Wireless Application Protocol (WAP)
Push.
■ Mandatory capabilities - Capabilities that must be defined for a device to accept
MIDlet applications.
■ Content Delivery Server-specific capabilities - Non-industry standard
capabilities that are specific to the server’s functionality. For example, the
Supported Libraries capability enables you to set the libraries that the device
supports. Libraries define the API sets that are supported. The Supported
Libraries capability enables the Content Delivery Server to match an application
to a device that supports the libraries used by the MIDlet.
■ User interface and software capabilities - Capabilities that specify the
characteristics of the device. The Content Delivery Server uses these capabilities
to refine the capability matching process.
To determine which devices can access the submitted content, the Content Delivery
Server performs a capability match comparing the capabilities of the devices defined
in the Catalog Manager with the capabilities required by the content submitted by
the developer. Only subscribers with devices capabilities that match the capabilities
required by the content can access the content.
Define the devices that you want to support before you make the Content Delivery
Server available to developers and subscribers.
The following device management tasks are described in this section:
■ Managing Device Libraries
■ Managing Content Descriptor Templates
■ Managing Device Definitions
■ Managing Server Locales
When an operation is performed (editing, deleting, adding, and so on), the Content
Deliver Server puts a background job notification in the main menu bar. You can
click on the notice to see details of jobs that were or are running in this session. See
“Getting Job Status” on page 126 for more information.
Managing Device Libraries
Device libraries identify the APIs that are supported by a device. Libraries are also
used in Developer Profiles to define the set of APIs that developers can use in the
applications that they submit. See
“Managing Developer Plans” on page 114 for
information on plans and profiles.