Taking a picture and uploading it to a J2ee Server

[Mitchkado]

Hello,
I'm trying to take a picture using the APIBridge and the example APIBridgeTest.
As a widget the example starts the camera, but when I insert the code to my own J2ee project and displaying it as a web page in my mobile the APIBridge doesn't work...

I'm trying to go in 2 directions -
1. Make my widget display the content of my J2ee web page with the functunallity of starting the camera (and after uploading the binary data).
2. Surf through the web to my J2ee web page and starting the camera....

Which way is better? Is it even possible?
Thanks in advance...

[jappit]

Hi Mitchkado,

welcome to Forum Nokia Discussion Boards!

I'm not sure I've clearly understood your questions, anyway in the scenario you describe the usual process is:

* the widget, by using API Bridge, takes the picture and uploads it to your web server
* the web server receives and handles the received picture, saving it somewhere

So, the Web server is usually only responsible for handling the received picture.

If you also need to display data sent from the Web server, you may want to use XMLHttpRequest objects and a suitable data format (XML or JSON).

Please let me know if I've missed something in your question
Pit

[Mitchkado]

Hi jappit,
First thanks for the quick reply...
Second, Is it possible to use the api bridge without the widget (I want my to display a web page with the functunallity of the api bridge)?

Can you share an example of using api bridge this way?

[jappit]

Hi Mitchkado,

so, you want to display a mobile web page that starts and uploads a picture taken from the mobile camera itself?

Pit

[Mitchkado]

Yes, on a javascript ver 1.0

[jappit]

As far as I've seen, there's not a ready-to-use solution to achieve this, for different reasons:

* the API Bridge engine must be installed on the mobile device: you can easily deploy it together with a widget, but there's no such an easy mechanism to do the same from a Web page (e.g.: you cannot check if it is already installed from a web page)
* the API Bridge JavaScript library relies on some WRT functionalities and objects, so it will not work outside the widget environment
* API Bridge performs local HTTP calls, that are possible since widgets have a particular security policy that allows them to access any domains. This is not true (afaik) for mobile web pages.

So, I would say that it's currently not possible, or at least not without any tweaks
Pit

[Mitchkado]

OK, I'm starting to get the picture...
Is it possible to create a widget that check every time it loads if a newer version of this widget exist on a predefined server and if so to install it? (with as little user intervention as possible).

[jappit]

Sure, check out this Wiki article:

http://wiki.forum.nokia.com/index.ph...ng_WRT_widgets

Hope it helps,
Pit

[Mitchkado]

Great!
Thanks for all your help!