optiPoint application module XML applications overview

Server based XML-applications can be accessed by the user using the optiPoint application module, which has a built-in XML parser.

Scope

The optiPoint application module with its 320x240 pixels color screen and its alphanumeric keyboard can be seen as an additional (beside an PC-browser) front-end to display and access web-content. It follows the very well-know client-server principle, where central internet content (Webserver) can be accessed by a PC-based browser. This makes it easy for web-developers to bring make their applications available for a telephone-display too.

There are hardly no special skills needed to write XML-based phone applications for optiPoint application module. The only difference comes inherently with XML, which makes a better usage of the graphical capabilities of a telephone screen.

Like HTML is targeted for PC browsers and WML best for small mobile-phone displays, XML is optimal to represent web-content on phone displays.

Documentation

•   XML developers guide

Ressources

•   Sample code XML-objects
•   XML schemata file (DTD)

Sample Applications

•   Presence demo
•   Slide show
•   Online Tutorial

How To's

How to access sample XML applications

Related links / information

• 3rd party applications developers area

Tutorials / Knowledge Base

• http://www.w3schools.com/xml - W3C school: XML Tutorial

Developement tools

• http://www.altova.com/ - XML developmet tools, e.g. XML spy
• http://www.stylusstudio.com - XML development tools
• Eclipse plugin

Webserver

•   http://httpd.apache.org/ - Apache Webserver opensource project
•   http://de.selfhtml.org/servercgi/server/index.htm - Einrichtehinweise Webserver
•   http://www.bananajoe.de - Einrichtehinweise Apache Webserver