OracleMobile, a division of Oracle Corp, has empowered developers for the wireless world by launching an Online Studio for building, testing and deploying hosted wireless applications.
"OracleMobile Online Studio makes hosted wireless application development and deployment quick, easy and cost-effective," says Allan Saunders, Portal Product Manager at Oracle SA. "With no software to download, no need to know multiple wireless markup languages, and a no cost online development and testing environment, OracleMobile Online Studio opens the field for companies and Web developers that want to extend their applications to the wireless world."
OracleMobile was launched earlier this year to focus on the rapidly emerging wireless Internet market. As a wireless application service provider, OracleMobile builds and hosts wireless web sites for e-businesses, carriers and enterprises.
With the OracleMobile Online Studio, developers will be able to enhance, easily create and deploy hosted versions of their industry leading applications to any device over any network, Saunders maintains.
According to CEO of OracleMobile, Denise Lahey, just as the future of software is as a hosted service over the Internet, the future of software development is as an online environment delivered over the Internet.
"First, with our approach to hosting wireless applications, we removed the complexity of extending applications wirelessly. Now, with OracleMobile Online Studio, we have removed the complexity of developing those wireless applications," Lahey says.
Saunders says companies creating hosted wireless versions of their content and applications using the OracleMobile Online Studio will benefit from:
Support for any Web-enabled or messaging-enabled device or any network without special programming or setup required
The ability to seamlessly leverage pre-built OracleMobile modules, such as driving directions and location awareness
Instant access to applications from http://www.oraclemobile.com/, a scaleable and secure mobile portal with 24 x 7 service;
The option to expose new hosted applications as modules for use by other applications; and
A free of charge solution for hosted wireless application development, testing and deployment.
" With the XML-based, extensible architecture of OracleMobile Online Studio, developers can leverage their existing application Web infrastructure - whether based on ASP, CGI, JSP, PERL, PL/SQL or other programming languages - to create hosted wireless versions of their applications. Once an application is published, it is immediately accessible from any Web- or Messaging-enabled device such as a Web-phone, wireless Palm or PDA, two-way messaging device, digital phone or text-pager," Saunders continues.
He adds that wireless applications can be published for hosted access in two ways. At no charge, developers can publish applications on the OracleMobile site, enabling OracleMobile users to quickly search and bookmark the new application on their wireless device. Alternatively, companies may choose to pay OracleMobile to host their wireless applications with a privately-branded URL.
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