Mobile internet software developers have to build applications more and more quickly, and with less money. These applications are expected to be easier to build than ever before. And they should preferably be component-based so they are reusable.

Components in Java are called beans. There are three major types of beans for Java: Java Swing Beans for graphical user interface, Enterprise JavaBeans (EJB) for EJB container and JavaBeans for Web Container used in the Model-View-Controller (MVC) framework.

The documents below describe how to develop reusable JavaBeans that encapsulate mobile services and functionality (SMS, MMS and so on) for mobile internet applications on Java EE Web Container. There is also an example of JavaBean for SMS service using Ericsson Internet Payment Exchange (IPX) web service. Here is an overview of the simplified layer architecture:


The zip file package includes source code of SMS service JavaBean, Ant script for generating the IPX SMS web service stub API and the configuration file.

By Ping Li
Ericsson Mobility World Developer Program