An Overview of Mobile Applications Architecture and the Associated Technologies

A mobile service covers a large field of technologies ranging from the mobile device such as a PDA or a phone to the enterprise content server through all the wired and wireless networks between them. In this paper, the focus is given to the client side application, the associated technologies and chosen frameworks to built these kind of contents. Some samples of technologies will be presented ranging from the Wireless Web with WML and xHTML contents to fat client based technology mainly the J2ME platform. APIs and protocols for messaging and synchronization are also part of mobile applications. A brief overview of security features is presented at the last section of this paper.