Use email, sms or instant messaging to
query database and webservice information

Some progress... - 26/06/2008, Admin Comments 0

We're finally making some progress on the next version of Mobile Data Now.

Of course with software you don't really know what you're getting in to when you embark on adding new features, so things invariably end up taking longer than you expect.

Adele got SMPP working well so direct connection to mobile operators and third parties for sending SMS is possible. It's much faster than a modem and easier to configure too. We got in to difficulties with concatenating messages (stitching individual messages together to make them look like one long message) as some operators do it one way, and others do it another way. But we'll support concatenated messages and connections to multiple operators.

Also, TLS for email and a few UI improvements to custom user query values will be rolled out soon too.

I'm also pleased to note Julie has made some great progress on the Web services implementation. We wanted to make it as easy as possible to connect to web services, just by adding a WSDL url and it create all the classes and code dynamically (dynamic invocation) in the background. This was easy for simple web services, but very difficult for complex type web services (Salesforce, Amazon, etc) and we looked eveywhere but could not find that it had been done in Java before. So, its now been done and we're currently tidying things up and integrating it in to Mobile Data Now. 

Nick