Extended Systems (Nasdaq:XTND), a leading provider of mobile data management and wireless connectivity solutions, today announced the release of XTNDConnect Mobile Objects, a mobile application software development kit (SDK) and the newest addition to the XTNDConnect product suite.
XTNDConnect Mobile Objects provides developers with a comprehensive, yet easy to deploy, set of tools to build custom mobile applications and extend existing applications to mobile devices, without compromising flexibility or security. The product further demonstrates Extended Systems commitment to drive the convergence of mobile devices and applications, enabling global corporations to maximize the benefits of mobile device deployment.
Featuring distributed-object architecture, XTNDConnect Mobile Objects offers tight integration with popular development environments and provides a framework that transforms traditional applications into dynamic, real time applications with offline store and forward capabilities. This framework makes it possible to extend corporate, LAN-based applications to mobile devices. Other uses might include incorporating live database access, Web services, e-mail, network printers, and faxing and paging services into mobile applications. With a quick and easy three-step development process, XTNDConnect Mobile Objects is designed to save developers time and money by solving time-to-market issues and reducing development costs.
"XTNDConnect Mobile Objects presents our enterprise, developer, and integrated software vendor customers with an advanced solution to extend mobile applications to wireless devices," said Jon Carter, developer product manager for Extended Systems. "It also demonstrates our ability to provide straightforward products to developers who are challenged with quickly and cost-effectively creating mobile applications for the enterprise."
Optimized for wireless networks, such as an 802.11b/WiFi, XTNDConnect Mobile Objects works with natively compiled client applications to provide superior speed and reliable off-line capabilities, while maintaining consistent support for cellular (GPRS, GSM, CDPD), IR LAN, and TCP/IP connections. To ensure the highest level of security for wireless and offline applications, Extended Systems used Certicom's Elliptical Curve technology to develop and integrate its patent-pending Streamline Security(TM) system into XTNDConnect Mobile Objects. The system offers one-pass authentication, versus a typical handshake model, resulting in optimum speed and security.
XTNDConnect Mobile Objects Product Highlights Extended Systems XTNDConnect Mobile Object features include:
-- End-to-end mobile software development kit; simple three step process
1) Build (or use existing) server-based COM (Component Object Model) object 2) Use the XTNDConnect mobile Objects Client Interface Expert to generate a native (non-COM) interface for the client application 3) Use the object interface generated in step 2 with AppForge or CodeWarrior to integrate the server object into the client application
-- Streamlined Security(TM) based on Certicom Elliptical Curve technology
-- State or stateless connection models
-- Live database access with store and forward architecture for unstable network environments
-- Distributed-Object architecture, enhancing live database access
-- SOAP (Simple Object Access Protocol) access to server objects
-- Client application development support for AppForge and CodeWarrior
-- Support for PocketPC, Palm and Windows devices
Pricing and Availability
XTNDConnect Mobile Objects is scheduled to be available November 29, 2001. List price is $395 per SDK and $595 per server. For more information, call 800/235-7576, ext. 6620 in North America or visit http://www.extendedsystems.com/go/buy to contact one of Extended Systems' global offices.
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