WebWorks is a BlackBerry SDK that leverages Web technologies to create applications for BlackBerry 5.0, 6.0, and QNX. An application that is built with WebWorks uses HTML, CSS, and JavaScript and is called a Web widget. The structure of the application is similar to a thick-client JavaScript Web application, where JavaScript manages the model, view, and logic.
WebWorks enhances the JavaScript API to allow any Web widget application to access any Blackberry Java API. RIM includes a small WebWorks JavaScript API that allows access to some BlackBerry device features, such as invoking third-party applications. However, more importantly, WebWorks allows developers to create an Java extension that binds JavaScript and Java. This means any Java API can be accessible to JavaScript.
The WebWorks SDK uses a command-line tool called bbwp.exe (Windows-only) to create a BlackBerry-compatible application binary (.cod). Since a WebWorks application is pa