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Interoperable Notification Service for Smartphones

The messaging framework is introduced as a component that follows a client/server architecture, which can easily be integrated with any application server for sending JSON-based notifications to any mobile platform that implements a XMPP mobile client. Unlike GCM, APNS or MPNS, XMPP-based notification server is not constrained by number of messages that can be pushed to a mobile or a specific mobile platform.

Requirements

Installation

$ git clone https://github.com/huberflores/XMPPNotificationServer.git

$ cd ~/XMPPNotificationServer/

$ mvn install

$ cd ~/xmpp-notification/target/xmpp-notification/WEB-INF/

$ nano web.xml

<web-app>
  <servlet>
    <servlet-name>xmppnotification</servlet-name>
    <servlet-class>ee.ut.notification.xmpp.server.RESTNotification</servlet-class>
  </servlet>

  <servlet-mapping>
    <servlet-name>xmppnotification</servlet-name>
    <url-pattern>/xmppnotification</url-pattern>
  </servlet-mapping>
</web-app>

Configure Openfire/XMPP server

$ ~/xmpp-notification/target/xmpp-notification

$ nano server.properties

server=your-xmpp-server
domain=your-xmpp-domain

Build war file

Locate war file within your Web server

Experimentation

In order to try the messaging framework, install the XMPP mobile client in a device and execute the xmppload.sh script.

$ ./xmppload.sh

How to cite

The complete framework (Client/Server) was built for comparison purposes with other notification mechanisms. If you are using the tool for your research, please do not forget to cite. Thanks!