Mobile application for Blackberry and J2me phones
Challenge
Our customer, UK software development company specializing on telecom solutions needed high qualified Blackberry and J2ME developers to work on their innovative set of mobile applications.
Solution
Softage quickly formed a team of Blackberry and J2ME developers to tackle the task. In cooperation with customer, a first fully operational version was released.
System overview
The system consists of several parts.
The first part of the application is "Mobile Wallet".
The Mobile Wallet allows users:
- Associate their mobile account with their credit cards
- Perform payments using these cards via application interface
- View completed transactions
The second part is Mobile Trade application that represents a virtual mobile marketplace for system users.
It allows:
- Place your goods
- Buy goods using your Mobile Wallet
The third part of the system is Mobile Booking application.
It allows:
- Book plane tickets
- Search for items on Amazon.com and buy them
The application consists of client and server parts. Application uses custom protocol over HTTP/HTTPS to connect to the server. Custom user interfaces has been developed by Softage specialists in order to provide for great usability. The application works fine on both J2ME and Blackberry mobile phones.
Tools and technologies:
Client part: J2ME, MIDP 2.0, Blackberry JDE 4.0, 4.2.x
Server part: J2EE, Servlet, JDBC, Apache Tomcat 5.5 application server, Firebird 1.5 database
Industry
M-business
Telecom