Chapter 18. Case Study: Mobile Clients for Location-Based Services

CHAPTER OVERVIEW

  • Location-Based Service

  • Microsoft MapPoint Web Services

  • The Apache Axis Web Services Facade

  • MapPoint J2ME Clients

  • Enhancing the Driving Directions Application

  • The J2ME Location API

In the previous two chapters, we discussed how to consume Web Services on mobile devices using the kSOAP and J2ME JAX-RPC APIs. In this chapter, we study real-world mobile Web Services in an emerging key mobile application field: Location-Based Services (LBS). After explaining basic LBS concepts, we introduce Microsoft MapPoint Web Service, a leading LBS Web Services provider. Then, we create a concrete example that allows users to look up driving directions on the move. It uses J2ME at the ...

Get Enterprise J2ME™: Developing Mobile Java™ Applications now with the O’Reilly learning platform.

O’Reilly members experience books, live events, courses curated by job role, and more from O’Reilly and nearly 200 top publishers.