SMS in Java

[Bhaskar Selvaraju]

Hi Folks,
I am working on a web based project where i am required to send SMS to users programmatically, can anyone help me on how to go about it ??? Like any resource on the net that will help me, is J2ME useful in this regard ??? It is very urgent so any help will be much appreciated.
Bhaskar

[Manoj Pandey]

Haaiii,
This should be simple man! Have you tried sms to urself from email , it goes something like this ,
int the address type for eg [e-mail] ,
and then type the body. This will go as SMS. All you have to do is use ur regular Java SMTP, No J2ME , thats I guess is very different thing, you know 2500 rs phones which most of indians use dont support J2ME. Try it.
Manoj

[Eric Giguere]

SMS really has nothing to do with J2ME. SMS is a way of sending messages (and other data) directly to a cellphone. How you do this depends on the carrier, but they often expose an email gateway that takes incoming email messages and converts them to SMS messages. So if the carrier(s) you're using support(s) this, you can just use the SMTP transport part of JavaMail (a standard part of J2EE now, but still available separately) to send the message off.
The other alternative is to use a service like MobileSys to talk directly to the carrier's SMS Centre. But that's probably more than you want to do.