The Self-Organizing Mobile Student Portal

IKTA Forum

Presentation of IKTA5/2002 Projects

University of Debrecen, Institute of Mathematics And Informatics

Mobile, self-organizing, STUDENT

• Mobile, because its main services can be accessed from mobile devices...

• Self-organizing, because it is based on a professional hierarchy

• Student, because students are involved both as developers and as target audience…

The general goals of the project

• Open source free software

• To serve as an educational metaportal

• To develope information technology content in Hungarian

• Building a community on the Internet

The special goals of the project

• To build a local unit that will serve as the professional portal of our institute

• Professional communication between students and teachers

• To serve as a bridge to the World

What does the portal offer?

• For students: electronic course materials, self-activity, entertainment

• For teachers: electronic contact with students, ...

• For the internet and mobile community:current content,

services utilizing the up-to-date technology

Innovative elements

• Resource rating• Electronic Tests: eTests• MobiVOTE: Mobile Quick VOTE • MIDlets embedded to WML pages• KódBaZár = Source Code Bazaar, online journal

(published periodically)• Mobile network games

Content development

• Professional content in Hungarian: electronic text books, lecture notes, exercises and problems, ...

• Entertaining content: mobile games (WEB, WAP, OTA)

Software developers

• Bátfai Norbert:J2SE, CORBA, J2ME

• Jeszenszky Péter:J2SE, Database, XML

• Antal Péter:J2SE, WAP, Servlet

Planned software architecture

iiop

WWW

Server side

Client side

Database

ServletCORBA

http

Portal engine

JDBC, JDO, XML

HTMLAppletWMLMIDlet[MidScapeML]PRC

Our Featured Links:

http://www.freeweb.hu/jxp/wap/index.wmlMIDisszea

http://www.midletcentral.comGames és Browsers category

http://venus.math.klte.hu/midJFC Enterprise

Client sidemobiDIÁK page

HTML WML WML+Java

ImplementationRelated Links:

http://java.sun.comJ2SE,J2ME, Java Servlethttp://www.apache.orgTomcat, XML http://www.castor.orgCastorhttp://www.postgresql.orgPostgreSQLhttp://www.omg.orgCORBAhttp://www.wapforum.orgWAP

iiop

WWW

Server side

Client side

Database

ServletCORBA

http

Portal engine

JDBC, JDO, XML

HTMLAppletWMLMIDlet[MidScapeML]PRC

Jakarta Tomcat

Java IDL

Castor JDO, Apache XML

Postgres

mobi@venus.math.klte.hu

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