This is a browser application that can be installed on any Palm Pilot with Palm OS 3.5, to access any application deployed on the server side through Internet using a custom markup language based on XML standards. This can be used in deploying applications like financial, sales force automation, Electronic Bill Presentment and Payment (EBPP), location Based Services and can easily be integrated with Enterprise applications using the M-Server Engine.

Architecture:

Palm Browser is a multi segmented palm application that uses shared library architecture to interact with other features. The current version of the application has a browser footprint of size 80KB and four shared libraries each not exceeding 10KB.

Brief Description of Functionality:

Palm micro browser is developed on Palm OS 3.5. The server fetches content from Internet and processes it, converts into micro browser understandable XML format and is sent to palm device. This browser dynamically generates the UI upon receiving the response from the server using HTTP connection. This browser has features like Session & Cookie support, History & Cache support with palm side validations using a scripting language, which is in lines with Java Script. This browser is compatible with any Palm device that supports Palm OS 3.5.

Salient Features:

Dynamic User Interface generation XML for data transfer Scripting Engine Implementation Auto - download of updates Plug and Play PamPlet support (PamPlets are pluggable miniature     applications) Implementation of Communication Library to communicate with the HTTP     server History / Cache Management Cookie / Session Management