Shout from the Hilltops with the J2ME Wireless Messaging API
Text messaging rapidly surfaced as the killer app of the wireless space. Find out how to integrate text messaging into your J2ME applications using the Wireless Messaging APIs.
by David Hemphill
October 26, 2004
he design of J2ME provides a flexible architecture that allows additional APIs to extend the application specifications such as MIDP and Personal Profile. One such extension is the Wireless Messaging API (WMA) that provides text messaging capabilities from within a J2ME application. In this article I discuss how to integrate messaging protocols such as SMS and CBS into J2ME applications. Although the examples here are shown using MIDP, the same capabilities and principles apply to the Personal Profile space, provided the device supports WMA.
The focus of WMA is around two protocols: Short Message Service (SMS) and Cell Broadcast Service (CBS). The differences between the two are as follows.
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he design of J2ME provides a flexible architecture that allows additional APIs to extend the application specifications such as MIDP and Personal Profile. One such extension is the Wireless Messaging API (WMA) that provides text messaging capabilities from within a J2ME application. In this article I discuss how to integrate messaging protocols such as SMS and CBS into J2ME applications. Although the examples here are shown using MIDP, the same capabilities and principles apply to the Personal Profile space, provided the device supports WMA.
