SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR DISCOVERING COMPONENT APPLICATIONS

摘要

A mobile application discovery system and methods for providing and obtaining information associated with mobile applications available to be downloaded to a mobile device are provided. The system comprises a publishing module for publishing a mobile application to a discovery service, a discovery module for searching a UDDI registry and a deployment descriptor for receiving and holding data in response to the inquiry. The method of providing comprises the steps of publishing mobile application information to a discovery service, receiving an inquiry for information associated with a mobile application from the discovery service and sending the information associated with the mobile application to a deployment descriptor of the discovery service in response to the inquiry. The method of obtaining mobile applications comprises the steps of searching a UDDI registry for information associated with available mobile applications, receiving the information and storing the information.