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1.Presentation. |
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Open
mobile IS is an open source project (GNU LGPL license) that aims to provide all the
necessary tools, API, and documents which enable effective nomad
applications development.
Heart of the project, the java framework is divided into components
that provide all the needed functionalities.
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2.History. |
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Since 5 years, e-Care is building a new technology dedicated to Mobile applications development. Its framework offers customers the immediate benefice of providing a complete range of tools and libraries making development, deployment and management of mobile applications far easier and robust.
At the beginning of the 2005 year and in order to share and promote the use of its technology, e-Care choose today the open source way to develop its technology.
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3.Main benefits. |
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Why OpenMobile IS is the best solution for the development of mobile application for a company? Beside the open source benefite, the main reasons are :
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OpenMobile IS is a complete and fully dedicated solution to nomad application development. One can find many products, but each solves only one aspect of this type of application development.
Creating a complete application that way means that you will have to integrate many of those products, regardless compatibility or architecture consideration.
From this point of view OpenMobile IS goal is to provide a framework offering all the needed components and will guarantee your application to be perfectly functional and ensure end users an amazing mobile experience.
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The framework contain code and components but not only, the idea is to propose pattern and best use case that are reflecting our experience in enterprise mobile application. Developing mobile application is not only a matter of code. It's a business. OpenMobile IS goal is to help you in avoiding main trap or error in this process.
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OpenMobile IS is not a new project. It's a the integration of the e-Care technologies inside an open source project. Several customer applications are already in production since several years.
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OpenMobile IS is open source so you can participate in its developement to ensure that it will fit to your need. Only open source can garanty that you'll keep the benefits of your investment.
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4.Road Map. |
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The port of e-Care technologies will continue until the begining of 2006 when the complete framework will be released.
The first release call R1 contain the core embedded part of the framework. You can beginning the development of your application with this release.
Futher release will add these functionalities :
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Better integration of the synchronisation mecanism to facilitate the developement of synchronized application.
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Module management based on OSGI to facilitate application life cycle management.
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High level module needed in mobile application like user, profil management.
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More documentations, examples and tutorials to facilitate the its use.
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The development of a J2ME CLDC version for smartphone and Java mobile phone.
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5.Using the framework. |
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This first realease is fully functional so you can begin to develop with it. To help you we provide :
e-Care provide some Flash demonstration of real applications developped with the framework here to show you what can be done this it.
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