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Development Enviroment for SMS application

  • 01-08-2006 12:53pm
    #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
    scoby
    Closed Accounts Posts: 73 ✭✭scoby


    If you're not going to connect to a gateway ( tcp ) or use a commercial api like clickatell (http ) you can connect a mobile to your server and find a way to interface them.

    I think nokia had a driver for mobiles that allowed you to connect to the phone via serial/usb cable and send and recieve sms. I saw it working in windows visual basic though. It would not be suitable for sending/receiving a huge amount of messages.

    I've used clickatell and it has been reliable and really easy.

    If you want to do this for technical reasons I think you would need to find docs on how to assemble a text message for sending over tcp. AFAIK you would still have to connect to the mobile network through some kind of commercial provider.

    If anybody could set up a computer to send messages directly, surely we'd be buried under sms spam...


  • #3
    Blaster99
    Closed Accounts Posts: 2,630 ✭✭✭Blaster99


    J2ME is for software running on mobile phones, so you don't need that. Maybe you mean J2SE?

    If you go through an aggregator like Clickatel, then it's simple HTTP stuff that you can do in Java or much anything else. The aggregators use SMPP to connect to the operators' SMSC's, but I wouldn't worry about that.


  • #4
    jimmycrackcorm
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 14,378 ✭✭✭✭jimmycrackcorm


    you cann connect any phone that has a modem function and issue simple commnds via the comm port. I even do this with a bluetooth connectoin. Alternatively as the man says clickatell is the way to go.


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