ACTIVEXPERTS MOBILE MESSAGING TOOLKIT 6.0 RELEASE NOTES
(Release date: July 6 2011)
Introduction
What's new in ActiveXperts SMS Component 6.0
Upgrading
INTRODUCTION
ActiveXperts Mobile Messaging Toolkit 6.0 is a new product introduced by ActiveXperts Software. This product is the successor of the SMS & MMS Toolkit 5.3
With this product ActiveXperts aims to provide companies with a fast, reliable and easy to use toolkit for sending out and receiving SMS and Pager messages.
The Mobile Messaging Toolkit will not support sending or receiving MMS messages.
The product runs on Windows 2008/2008 R2/2003/7/Vista/XP in both 32Bit as 64Bit. It can be used with
various development tools, including Visual Basic .NET, Visual C# .NET, Visual Basic, Visual C++, ASP .NET, ASP, PHP, VBScript, Borland Delphi, Borland C++ Builder and JavaScript.
WHAT'S NEW IN ACTIVEXPERTS MOBILE MESSAGING TOOLKIT 6.0
New features in ActiveXperts Mobile Messaging Toolkit 6.0
- Complete rework of the GSM, SMPP and HTTP API's
- Added samples for USSD using GSM modems that support this
- Added samples for sending out XML documents with HTTP protocol
GSM
- The new GSM API now supports sending as well as receiving in Text mode as well as in PDU mode
- The new GSM API now lets the user receive individual parts of multipart messages as well as the option to automatically assemble them
- The new GSM API now allows more fine grained control over sending custom commands as well as receiving data
SMPP
- The SMPP API now is completely asynchronous for improved performance
- The SMPP API now allows users to inspect delivery reports instead of automatically integrating them into the message status
- The SMPP API now allows the option to add TLV's to an outgoing Bind operation as well as outgoing SMS messages
- The SMPP API now allows users to select if outgoing multipart messages should be send using 8 BIT UDH's, 16 BIT UDH's or 'sar' TLV's
- The SMPP API now receives multipart messages send using 8 BIT UDH's, 16 BIT UDH's or 'sar' TLV's
- The SMPP API introduces the TLV object for easy access to attached TLV's as well as easy attaching TLV for outgoing messages
HTTP
- The HTTP API now introduces build in command for easy URL Encoding, HEX encoding as well as Base64 Encoding
- For simple HTTP API's there is support for sending SMS Message objects through the use of 'Get URL' and 'Post body' templates using placeholders
- For complex HTTP API's there the option to issue a 'GET' or a 'POST' command directly using free form URL and POST bodies
- Both methods of sending SMS Messages return the entire response including the response code for easy access and parsing
- The HTTP API now introduces the option to attach custom HTTP headers
Paging
- The paging protocol object name has been fitted to match the new convention of GSM, SMPP and HTTP
MMS
- The Mobile Messaging Server will no longer support MMS
UPGRADING
GSM, SMPP and HTTP Users
- The GSM, SMPP and HTTP API's have been completely revised and are not compatible with the previous version
- It is possible to install the Mobile Messaging Toolkit next to an existing installation of the SMS & MMS Toolkit
- The Mobile Messaging Toolkit uses a different registration key. If you are upgrading and have a valid maintenance license contact us for a new registration code
- Before upgrading, carefully read our manual as well as try our samples. The API has been completely revised
Paging users
- The 'ActiveXperts.PagerProtocolSnpp' object has been renamed to 'AxMmToolkit.Snpp'
- The 'ActiveXperts.PagerMessage' object has been renamed to 'AxMmToolkit.PagerMessage'