IBM Worklight Server provides us with the adapter as a way to communicate with the organization's business processes. A developer can manage to create a request to web services, REST services, and databases in a very structured way to compound information from various sources where the developer can perform necessary server-side logic on this response data to mobile devices.

Worklight Adapter works as an interpreter between mobile applications and backend enterprise systems with a flexible authentication facility to open a secure bridge between them. Moreover, adapter is developed in JavaScript and XSL, where the developer needs to write powerful server-side JavaScript code to integrate it with backend applications, and use XSL to transform hierarchical response data to JSON.

An IBM Worklight Adapter contains server-side code in its developer-defined procedures to retrieve data from the remote database and enterprise application services. Worklight Adapters are...