Web Based Platform for Mobile Business Services

Abstract

Mobile business services are an attractive solution used by various economic and government agents in order to offer their products or services to a great number of potential clients. The efficiency of using and providing of these services increases significantly, due to the mobile and wireless channels used for data transmission, so the user can access these facilities from anywhere and anytime. In this paper a Web based client server platform for a stock market exchange service is presented. The electronic service content provider is the Romanian Bucharest Stock Exchange. The data is delivered to the client using a web service and socket to socket communications, which significantly reduces the data traffic, comparing with the WEB browsing. The client software applications are suitable for PDAs and Smartphones, with Windows Mobile and Symbian OS.