Pushing It

We got a request from one of our pro-subscribers to support push notification on Blackberry devices. Normally we just implement the feature pro-developers ask for. However, in this case we were cautious... Building anything for/on top of a RIM device is often an exercise in futility.

The gist of it though is that we were able to get it working despite the huge hassles. The main issue here isn't the lack of documentation, its the over abundance of irrelevant, conflicting and misleading documents about a multitude of separate features of push related functionality on RIM devices.

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