The worklight server is not required to run a worklight based application.
The worklight server provides a variety of services for your worlight based application.
The Worklight server provides:
- security framework for you application and connectors
- host worklight connectors
- provides support for unified push notification across all supported mobile platforms
- provides the ability to send a message to the application or disable the application running on a mobile platform
- can push out HTML/CSS/JavaScript code updates to a worklight application
- provides basic analytics on deployed mobile applications