A Mobile Web Server is software designed for modern-day smartphones to host personal

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s, through the use of

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, such as, i-jetty, an open source software, based on jetty. I-jetty is an open source web container, serving Java-based web content such as,

servlets A Jakarta Servlet (formerly Java Servlet) is a Java software component that extends the capabilities of a server. Although servlets can respond to many types of requests, they most commonly implement web containers for hosting web application ...

and JSPs. Jetty is written in Java and its API is available as a set of

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. Developers can instantiate a jetty container as an object, instantly adding network and web connectivity to a stand-alone Java app. Jetty is built for scalable performance allowing tens of thousands of HTTP connections and hundreds of thousands of simultaneous web socket connections. Jetty is optimized and known for creating small memory footprints, increasing scalability and performance. Nokia is one of the few cellphone companies that brought

Apache HTTP Server The Apache HTTP Server ( ) is a free and open-source cross-platform web server software, released under the terms of Apache License 2.0. Apache is developed and maintained by an open community of developers under the auspices of the Apache So ...

to their line of Nokia cellphones, running Symbian OS S60 mobile software platform. The S60 Mobile Web Server enables connectivity for HTTP traffic to a mobile device from the Internet. The Mobile

Web Server A web server is computer software and underlying hardware that accepts requests via HTTP (the network protocol created to distribute web content) or its secure variant HTTPS. A user agent, commonly a web browser or web crawler, initiate ...

components include a gateway application that runs on a

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with Internet access and a connector application, that runs on the remote mobile device. The gateway and the connector applications with a valid

DNS The Domain Name System (DNS) is a hierarchical and distributed naming system for computers, services, and other resources in the Internet or other Internet Protocol (IP) networks. It associates various information with domain names assigned to ...

configuration can provide a mobile device with a global web address (

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). However, as of January 2010, the

project has been discontinued by Nokia.– Mobile Web Server Beta archived
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Examples

The Mobile

application allows mobile devices a means for hosting personal web applications, including, web pages and

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control. The most commonly used

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and

servlet containers A web container (also known as a servlet container; and compare "webcontainer" ) is the component of a web server that interacts with Jakarta Servlets. A web container is responsible for managing the lifecycle of servlets, mapping a URL to a part ...

currently available are Jetty,

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, Glassfish and Resin.

Web container comparison

Features

* Personal information manager (PIM) Manage phone's address book * Helix multimedia player * Send SMS messages using a web browser * Browse phone's

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* Browse camera phone's image gallery via computer * View received and missed calls * Get instant messages sent to your phone screen. * Maintain a blog * Share presence status * Online chat * Manage access rights * Start mobile site from the web or Settings * Share mobile site content via

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feeds

References

External links

*Official links *
Nokia Research – Mobile Web Server
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Nokia Wiki – Mobile Web Server
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SourceForge – Mobile Web Server

All About Symbian – Previewing Nokia's Mobile Web Server
{{DEFAULTSORT:Mobile Web Server (Symbian Os) Nokia services Free web server software Free software programmed in C Free software programmed in C++ Free software programmed in Java (programming language) Mobile software S60 (software platform) Symbian software

Examples

Web container comparison

Features

See also

References

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