PC On Mobile (POM)

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  Introduction of Related Technology

 The widespread use of mobile phones is a recent phenomenon. Their use has escalated over the past decade and to many they are now an essential part of business, commerce and society. By 2004 mobile usage is expected to reach some seven hundred million phones worldwide, there will always be more phones than PCs. At the end of 2000, all the leading phone manufacturers will have WAP devices on the market. Earlier this month, Nokia Corp. chairman predicted that web-connected mobile phones (WAP enabled devices) will outnumber web-wired PCs within three years. Internet mobiles are the boom technology of tomorrow.

Around a third of a million new subscribers join the world’s mobile phone services every day. But Research Company Forrester reckons that by 2004, one third of all Europeans - over 200 million people will regularly use Internet services on their mobile phones. Subscriber numbers are predicted to reach 20 million by the end of 2001. What we’ll find to be very interesting is that for a number—and probably it’s a large number of people—their first opportunity to be on the Internet will be through a mobile phone.

A mobile phone must be as easy to use as a home or office phone, yet still provide all the advanced services made possible by new telecommunications technology. Users can send email and visit a few thousand specially formatted Web sites. A mobile phone is not a browsing tool, It is, however, a tool that will allow you to extract specific pieces of information that you can utilize when and where you can utilize them. The demand for wireless information with the penetration of broadband access in the home will lead, as a natural extension, to enhanced use of the Internet via mobile phones.  This doesn’t mean PCs go away. It means we have an extension of the capability.

Introduction To POM

 We have utilized this capability of the mobile phones: “The capability show contents in its mini-browser screen”. The goal of POM was to show the contends of a remote computer on the mini-screen of the mobile phone and to perform operations on those contents (files).  The idea is to connect (remotely through a wireless network) a mobile phone to a computer (a server on the internet), once that is achieved, we can talk to any other machine on the  internet. We have materialized this idea.

Goals And Objectives

Mainly we have one big goal and that is also the 1^st increment of our project and after that we will extend our project and develop our 2^nd phase. First goal is very much clear at the moment but not the 2^nd one.

Goals of First Increment

1. To be able transfer a file from one computer to another computer thorough mobile

2. To be able perform directory operations from one computer to another computer like FILE copy, delete, cut copy, paste, edit  etc.

Goals of Second Increment

1. Develop software for the lab administrator that helps him in performing operations through mobile.

2. This is also not clear and final

Objectives

Appendix

The information presented in Information About the Related Technology has been extracted from the mobile phone web sites. The typical of those was http://www.nokia.com/, the home page of NOKIA phone company. The figures presented in that section were entirely from the general figures presented on popular phone Web Sites including that of Erricson.

The technical information on WAP and WML was taken mostly from the developer’s reference from Nokia WAP Toolkit and from Ben Forta’s Book: WAP development with WML and WMLscript. Further information can be found in Nokia’s WML Reference and Phone.com site.

POM front end was created in WML in the Nokia’s WAP toolkit IDE. The toolkit can be downloaded after normal subscription from Nokia’s web site. The working and other related procedures, like the toolkit installing can be studied from the Developers Reference in the Toolkit and with the download itself.

Java Servlet chapter has been partially influenced by the work of James Goodwill in his book Developing java servlets. The book is  a good resource for programmers focusing on the servlet technology. Installing and running procedures of the servlets can be in the book  Java how to program by H.M. Dietel. The servlet development kit can be downloaded free of charge from www.javasoft.com’s web site with all the related information. In order to run servlets you must have compliant JRE installed on your computer. This can be downloaded from javasoft.com’s website with all the installation and working procedures

The tools used: Jbuilder from Sun Microsystems can be downloaded from it website. Since its heavy it can also be purchased. However for servlet development kit, Sun’s JDK is preferable.

The information on web hosting sites was taken from the web itself. There are a number of those sites that provide web hosting for Java servlets like: ww.webappcabaret.com, www.mycgiserver.com and www.oocities.org, but in no vain. You can check our main pages from these links, i.e. http://www.webappcabaret.com/pom2, http://www.oocities.org/pom2k1.

The information on the JDBC was used from the Sun’s own book: JDBC database access with Java by Graham Hamilton. It has all the basics needed and even more advanced info  about using JAVA to access databases.