Chapter 9. Converged Mobile P2P Messaging

CHAPTER OVERVIEW

  • What Is SMS?

  • Introducing the Wireless Messaging API

  • WMA in Action

  • Synchronous and Asynchronous SMS Using WMA

  • WMA Reference Implementation

  • SMS from the Back End

  • Beyond SMS: Interoperate with General IM Systems

  • Mobile Jabber Clients

  • SIP-Based IM Applications

SMS-based peer-to-peer (P2P) mobile messaging is already a major revenue source for wireless carriers. It could become mobile commerce’s killer application. In the past, SMS (Short Message Service) was a nonprogrammable device native feature. It was difficult to integrate SMS functionalities into custom mobile solutions. But with emerging tools on both the J2ME smart client side and the messaging server side, SMS is becoming increasingly available ...

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