The Mobile Front Controller SDK is an independent web-application framework that is both easy to learn and easy to use. All you need to know to start using the SDK is standard Java and Java Server Pages (JSP). You can use the SDK as a template for developing your own applications.

Mobile Front Controller allows you to develop applications with the same user-interface logic for both mobile browsers and web browsers. This means that the same underlying user interface can be presented in different markup languages, such as HTML, XHTML-MP and WML, on different browsers.

When Mobile Front Controller receives an HTTP request from the internet, it automatically detects whether it is a web HTTP request or a mobile WAP 1.0 or WAP 2.0 HTTP request. It then presents the underlying user-interface logic in the correct markup language (HTML, WML, or XHTML-MP). This ensures that the interface is presented correctly on the PC or mobile phone that is accessing the servlet or web container in which your application is running.

Mobile Front Controller is a lightweight design pattern framework that runs directly on a Java EE web container.

Compatible with Tomcat
The SDK contains Apache Ant scripts for building, setting up and deploying web applications on Tomcat.

By Pär Johansson and Peter Yeung