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Deliver XHTML applications to mobile devices

Naveen Balani, Technical Architect, Webify Solutions
Naveen Balani spends most of his time designing and developing J2EE-based frameworks and products. He has written various articles for IBM developerWorks in the past, covering such topics as SOA, JMS, Web services architectures, CICS, AXIS, J2ME, DB2, XML Extender, WebSphere Studio, MQSeries, Java Wireless Devices and DB2 Everyplace for Palm, J2ME, Java-Nokia, Visual Studio .Net, and wireless data synchronization.
(An IBM developerWorks Master Author, Level 3)

Summary:  In this tutorial, you'll learn how to deliver XHTML applications to XHTML-enabled mobile devices. We will develop a sample XHTML mobile application that posts requests to a Java servlet and receives responses in XHTML format. We'll deploy and test the application using the Nokia Mobile Internet Toolkit. Developers who want to extend their Internet applications to wireless devices will want to read on and see how it's done.

Date:  18 Mar 2003
Level:  Introductory
PDF:  A4 and Letter (159 KB | 11 pages)Get Adobe® Reader®

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In this tutorial, we have successfully delivered a sample XHTML application to an XHTML-compatible mobile device. This should offer you some direction on how you can deliver any complex application to mobile devices. For instance, Web-based applications developed for a PC environment, such as banking applications, can be easily ported to mobile devices using XHTML.

However, there's one important thing you need to keep in mind when building such applications: Mobile users are not browsers. They are often paying per-minute charges, and they want instant and easy access to specific information.

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