Telecom web services are used for back-end and business-to-business (B2B) communication, for example, between a server-side application and an operator’s web services gateway that exposes telecom network capabilities such as SMS, MMS, Terminal Status and WAP-Push.

Java SE Components for Telecom Web Services are mainly based on Parlay X, which is a standardized set of telecom web services as defined by the Parlay Group, www.parlay.org.

Overview of Java SE Components for Telecom Web Services.

Features

• Easy to use
  o Reusable JavaBeans
  o Callback components
  o Application examples for copy/paste       
• Supported application types:
  o SE applications
  o Web applications
  o EJB applications
  o Clustered applications      
• High performance      
• Currently supported Parlay X Web Services v2.1:
  o SMS
  o MMS
  o Wap-Push
  o Terminal status      
• Application testing made easy with emulator

Example use cases:

• Receive SMS: Post a new text message to blog.       
• Receive MMS: Post a new multimedia message to blog.      
• WAP-Push: Push a link to an interesting WAP page to a terminal.      
• Terminal Status: Make sure a terminal is not turned off before sending an SMS message.

To easily test applications based on these components, read more about Telecom Web Services Network Emulator and download

By Kristofer Borgström, Erik Eriksson and Peter Yeung