Brief Description:

We are planning to develop an application using the MONO framework to support document sharing for hand held devices. Using this application we should be able to transfer documents of considerable sizes across hand held devices like pocket PC’s and PDA’s.

Technologies Used:
> Gentoo Linux <a href="http:/www.gentoo.org">Gentoo's Home Page
> SOAP protocol<a href="http:/www.w3.org/TR/soap/">Some useful SOAP details
XML What is XML??
MONO frameworkMono's Official Home Page
> <br> Mono Project is an open development initiative sponsored by Novell to develop an open source, UNIX version of the Microsoft .NET development platform.(taken from http://www.mono-project.com/FAQ:_General)

SOAP—Simple Object Access Protocol SOAP is a standard for exchanging XML-based messages over a computer network, normally using HTTP.

SOAP is platform independent

SOAP is language independent.

SOAP is designed to communicate via Internet.

SOAP forms the foundation layer of the web services stack, providing a basic messaging framework that more abstract layers can build on.

SOAP allows you to get around firewalls.

XML Xtensible Markup Language

XML is a descriptive language that allows the user to describe the data with tag names and attributes.

Using DTD or XML Schema we can maintain uniformity in a document