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Development Enviroment for SMS application

  • 01-08-2006 12:45PM
    #1
    aidan_mc
    Closed Accounts Posts: 44 ✭


    Hi
    I am researching for my Final Year Project and I'm thinking of using SMS to send information to a users mobile from a web server.
    I want to run this on a local host without actually sending SMS through a commercial provider.
    I would like to use the following J2ME toolkit 2.3 or 2.5 , Tomcat web server ,MYSQL and Netbeans IDE.

    However I need to know is this actually possible?
    And what do I need on the server side to make it possible

    Thanks
    in advance

    Aidan


Comments

  • #2
    The Corinthian
    Closed Accounts Posts: 19,777 ✭✭✭✭The Corinthian


    aidan_mc wrote:
    I want to run this on a local host without actually sending SMS through a commercial provider.
    This limits your options. I can think of two ways:
    1. Send them via a GSM modem (which uses a normal SIM) which, attached to your server, can be accessed by opening a serial port and sending the relevant AT commands.
    2. Deep link (typically using HTTP POST) into a free operator service such as O2 or Vodafone Web2SMS services. Some have already done this on the Mobiles / PDAs forum.
    The latter is your best bet, IMHO.


  • #3
    kdouglas
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 6,384 ✭✭✭kdouglas


    have a look at o2sms, it's a perl version of option 2 above


  • #4
    Inspector Gadget
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,393 ✭✭✭Inspector Gadget


    I actually did this for a final year project some time ago - about ten years ago now - and (considering online SMS services were maybe a gleam in someone's eye back then) I got a direct connection going to two different Nokia phones - a 2110 and an 8110 (if I remember correctly) - that'll date it for ya!

    (Should point out that I was using VB 4.0 for this, not Java)

    Like the Corinthian said, these particular phones supported AT-command-based sending and receiving of SMS messages over a serial link - however, to the best of my knowledge, not all phones do. There's a standard covering SMS that describes (amongst other things) how to send and receive messages from a remote terminal, called ETSI 07.05, that the phones must support in this regard, but AFAIK the AT-command-style thing is purely at the whim of the manufacturer.

    Now, this information is (obviously) a bit on the old side, but as a quick google search suggests the standard I mentioned above is still relevant, the rest of what I said should be too.

    Hope this helps,
    Gadget


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