Access Desktop Data From Mobile Devices

Overview

Java ME has made it possible to write platform-independent applications for mobile devices and deploy them fairly easily. As far as desktop devices are concerned, wired internet has provided the necessary linkage for quite some time now. With the advent of GPRS, it has now become fairly easy to access data residing on desktops through mobile devices. This paper explains about an application called Access that enables a MIDP-2.0-compatible mobile phone to locate an entry in a phone directory on a desktop PC and to call that number. The application also implements a rudimentary password-based authentication scheme that will not be dealt with in detail in the paper.