Troubleshooting guide

Creating push applications

Types of push applications

Push applications send web content or data to specific BlackBerry® device users. BlackBerry device users do not

need to request or download the data because the push application delivers the information as soon as it becomes

available.

Two types of push applications exist:

Types of push applications

Types of push requests

Write a client push application

Write a server-side push application

Create a RIM push request

Create a PAP push request

Code sample: Pushing data to an application that listens on a BlackBerry device

Application Description

Browser push applications Browser push applications send content to a web browser on the BlackBerry device.

• The BlackBerry Browser configuration supports BlackBerry MDS™ Services push applications.

• The WAP Browser configuration supports WAP push applications.

• The Internet Browser configuration does not support push applications.

See the BlackBerry Browser Developer Guide for more information about writing browser push

applications.

Client/server push applications A server-side application pushes data to a custom Java™ application on the BlackBerry device.

Client/server push applications consist of a custom client application for the BlackBerry device and

a server-side application that pushes content to the client application. This approach provides more

control than browser push applications over the type of content that you can send and how the

BlackBerry device processes and displays the content.