- SMS 101
- Configuring for SMS
- Working with an SMS Gateway
- SMS and SMTP
- The Wireless Toolkit
- Wrapping It Up
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Working with an SMS Gateway
After the PC is wired to a cellular network, you need to install an SMS gateway on your machine to mediate the transmission of SMS messages. An alternative is to be wired directly to a major telecom carrier's SMS gateway. Many companies provide SMS gateways, with accompanying Java libraries that you use to transmit SMS. Among them are Kannel, UniPro, and Simplewire, though you're sure to find others once you start looking around.
With your gateway up and running, creating an application that sends an SMS message is a simple affair. The code below shows you how to iterate through a list of phone numbers to send an SMS to each member of the list, using the UniPro product. It's a bare-bones example, but demonstrates the simplicity of sending an SMS message using a third-party SMS gateway product.
// Import SMLib classes
import com.unipro.smlib.*;
public class runSMS {
public static void main(String[] s) {
//Make a phoneList
String[] phoneList = new String[4]
phonelist[0] = "2125551212"
phonelist[1] = "2135551212"
phonelist[2] = "6175551212"
phonelist[3] = "2015551212"
//Create an instance of the SmsManager class
SmsManager smsManager = SmsManager.getInstance();
try {
// Initialize the UniPro library (UniPro-specific stuff)
smsManager.init(new Configurator(Configurator.PORT_COM1,
Configurator.BAUD_19200));
} catch (Exception e) {
// Handle exceptions of initializations here
}
try {
// Go through the party list and send a party invitation
// to each member on the list
int i =0
for(i=0;i < phoneList.length;i++){
smsManager.sendMessage(new OutMessage(phoneList[i],
"Dude, come to my party"));
} catch (Exception e) {
// Handle the exceptions
}
// Close up shop
smsManager.close();
}
}