The WURFL Cloud Service by ScientiaMobile, Inc., is a cloud-based mobile device detection service that can quickly and accurately detect over 500 capabilities of visiting devices. It can differentiate between portable mobile devices, desktop devices, SmartTVs and any other types of devices that have a web browser.
This is the Java Client for accessing the WURFL Cloud Service, and it requires a free or paid WURFL Cloud account from ScientiaMobile: http://www.scientiamobile.com/cloud
First, you must go to http://www.scientiamobile.com/cloud and signup for a free or paid WURFL Cloud account (see above). When you've finished creating your account, you must copy your API Key, as it will be needed in the Client.
- Download and Install a Java JDK version 1.5 or greater
- Download and Install Apache Tomcat version 6 or greater
- Download and Install Apache Ant version 1.8 or greater
Create a JAVA_HOME Environment Variable which points to the location of your
Java JDK installation (eq: C:\Program Files (x86)\Java \jdk1.6.0_31).
Create a ANT_HOME Environment Variable which points to the location of your
Ant installation (eq: C:\apache-ant-1.8.3). Add %ANT_HOME%/bin to your
PATH System Variable.
Note for Windows users: If you are setting your environment variables
using a terminal window (cmd.exe), you must quit and restart the Command Prompt
utility for the environment variables you have defined to be recognized.
To build and test the sample code you will first need to edit two files which came with the WURFL Cloud Client.
Locate the MyCloudClientServlet.java file and open it with a text editor.
Change the value of the TEST_API_KEY variable to your API Key. You can retrieve
your API Key in your Scientiamobile account. Save and close the file.
Locate the build.properties file and open it with a text editor. Set the value of
tomcat.home to the location of your tomcat installation and other settings as
explained. Save and close the file.
Note: Please observe that this step assumes that Tomcat is configured
to 'talk' to other applications. Tomcat must be running and you must have
configured an user with 'manager-script' role. For this step, please read
how-to in <tomcat-home>/conf/tomcat-users.xml. If this is not the case,
you can skip this step and deploy/copy the '.war' (more later) following
the procedure that you normally follow to install web applications on your
Java application server.
If your Tomcat installation is accessible from Ant, the ant install
command will deploy the cloud client automatically.
Warning: manager paths are slightly different between Tomcat 6 and Tomcat 7.
Open a terminal window and change to the WURFL Cloud Client directory. Type
ant and hit enter. This builds a .war file in dist folder.
Assuming you are using Tomcat, copy the '.war' file in the dist directory to
the tomcat webapps directory. For other application servers, simply follow
the normal procedure to deploy .war files.
If not already started, start Tomcat.
Assuming you have installed Tomcat and all of the traditional defaults apply, you can access the Cloud Client from your browser at one of the following URLs:
Please Note that it may take a few minutes from the time that you signup for your WURFL Cloud API Key to become active.
http://localhost:8080/cloud-client-example-1.0/
(or, if you have hot-deployed with ant)
http://localhost:8080/cloud-client-example)
Note: if your application server is not tomcat or you changed some of the defaults, you will need to adjust your URLs accordingly.
You should review the included example code (MyCloudClientServlet.java and response.jsp)
to get a feel for the Client API, and how best to use it in your application.
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