A secure extensible container for hybrid mobile applications

An agile, lightweight, but secure extensible hybrid application container and deployment mechanism for mobile devices has the potential to provide improved cross platform support, reduced development lifecycle time and a consistent application security model within large organizations. We demonstrate how such an architecture can provide a set of security and mobile device management interfaces to lightweight applications written in a high level markup and scripting language and also how these applications can be provisioned via push or pull mechanisms to an Enterprise user's device. The use of such a container for hybrid applications widens the potential support and development resource within an organization to employees possessing readily available skill sets, this permits mission critical applications to be developed in a much shorter time frame than with native mobile application deployment methods.