BlackBerry Application Control: Version 4.0 - Overview for Application Developers

BlackBerry Application Control introduced in BlackBerry Device Software version 3.8 is designed to provide BlackBerry Enterprise Server administrators the ability to establish which capabilities a custom Java application for BlackBerry has when it runs on a specific BlackBerry device. For example, a BlackBerry Enterprise Server administrator can use BlackBerry Application Control to make sure that a custom game loaded onto the BlackBerry device cannot access the phone Application Programming Interface (API). This paper lists the areas in which one can use BlackBerry Application Control, what method call in the API invokes the BlackBerry Application Control check, and suggested modifications to the Java code to allow BlackBerry Application Control checks to be handled successfully.