MMS Components for Web 2.0 is a toolkit for developers who want to develop Java web applications that display, compose, and interact with MMS (Multimedia Messaging Service) messages. The toolkit consists of Java classes, servlets and JSP tags. The source code for the toolkit is open.

Today, multimedia communication between phones are enabled primarily by MMS messages, so you will need tools that help you develop web applications that can handle the MMS format. The toolkit will be useful regardless of what type of industry you are developing the application for, whether it is health care, education or entertainment for example.

The toolkit includes components that enable applications to receive MMS messages according to the SMTP protocol, and to both send and receive messages with the MM7 and Parlay X protocols. MM7 is an interface specifically designed for sending MMS messages. Parlay X is a set of APIs that define various high-level telecom web services, including MMS messaging.

With MMS Components for Web 2.0, you can among other things:

• Add an MMS message to a JSP page with a single line of code.        
• Transform messages between MMS SMIL format, Java object presentation, and HTML.        
• Add an “MMS canvas” to compose MMS messages on a JSP page with a single line of code.        
• Send and receive MMS messages in a simple way with the Telecom Web Services SDK, using the utility classes that are included in the toolkit.

By Kristofer Borgström and Peter Yeung

There are two versions of MMS Components for Web 2.0 for download. The first version includes an emulator for testing. The other version, which does not inlude an emulator, gives you the option to test the components in other ways.