How to send Binary SMS in Java ME

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19 Sep
2009

Article Review by vkmunjpara (20090919)

Level: Basic

This article shows how you can send picture,sound,etc.. multimedia messages to other phones through message Sending.

First it converts multimedia things into binary codes and then sends it to destination phones through message sending.

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This Java ME code snippet shows a method of sending binary messages such as PNG images, sound files etc. In the program BinaryMessage interface represents a binary message. The setPayloadData() method sets the value of the payload in the data container without checking whether the value is valid or not.

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How to send a message to a given port as SMS with Java ME

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Created: wang_shui (21 Mar 2007)

Last edited: hamishwillee (10 Sep 2012)

public boolean sendSMS(byte data[]) {
   boolean result = true;
    try {
        String destAddress = "sms://9772625262:5000";
        MessageConnection smsConnection = (MessageConnection)Connector.open(destAddress);
        //Create binary message
        BinaryMessage binaryMSG = (BinaryMessage)smsConnection.newMessage(MessageConnection.BINARY_MESSAGE);
        //Setting destination add
        binaryMSG.setAddress(destAddress);
        //Add payload data
        binaryMSG.setPayloadData(data);
        //Now send the message
        smsConnection.send(binaryMSG);
        smsConnection.close();        
    } catch (Exception e) {
        result = false;
    }
    return result;
}