ATTENTION: Mobicents moved to http://mobicents.org, the content below is OUTDATED!

Mobicents is the First and Only Open Source JAIN SLEE 1.0 Certified product. Mobicents is a Java VoIP middleware platform, which is genericlly applicable to a variety of problems demanding high volume, low latency signaling. Examples include call control, oline gaming, financial trading, sensor network integration and distributed control.

Mobicents Wiki Overview

The Mobicents WIKI is a community white board for sharing documents such as Design patterns, Best Practices, and Examples related to the Mobicents project. The project official home page is located at http://mobicents.org . Here are some community pages that should be noted:

• Statistics pages, which are indicative of the project's health: Wiki page visits.
• Subscribing to Wiki change notifications

Essential Mobicents Documents

• Mobicents FAQ
• A Quick Start Guide for the Eager Contributor
• List of wiki pages describing mobicents resources
• Mobicents JAIN SLEE 1.0 Certification page
• Mobicents applications examples
• Roadmap -High level Mobicents Roadmap
• Mobicents QA (Quality Assurance)
• Mobicents Glossary (SLEE, SIP and related VoIP terminology)
• Mobicents License
• Mobicents Design Notes
• Mobicents Use Cases
• Mobicents Component Diagram (outdated)
• Other essential documents

Best Practices

• How to write a SLEE Resource Adaptor
• How to implement scalable call intercepting services
• How to build a SIP Registrar Service on SLEE
• Other Best Practices

White Papers, Articles & Presentations

• Mobicents article on Java.net, March 2006
• Mobicents Presentation at VON Fall 2005; panel: Ranga, Francesco, Phelim O'Doherty and Ivelin
• Mobicents presentation at JavaOne
• Mobicents presentation at JavaPolis
• Mobicents Presentation at JBoss World
  • PDF File
  • Video replay on Sys-Con TV (requires Flash)
• Open IMS and the role of Mobicents
• J2EE� and Telecom: Emerging Trends and How to Get Involved, JSLEE, J2EE^?, SIP Servlets, OSS/J; JavaOne^? 2005 Presentation by Alka Gupta, Sun Microsystems, Inc.; Phelim O�Doherty, BEA Systems, Inc.; Rehman Adil and Peter Yeung, Ericsson AB.
• JCA & SLEE Presentation by Bert Van Vlerken and Gerard Maas at Java Polis 2004
• JAIN SLEE technology overview, Presentation at Java User Group München, April 2005
• JAIN SLEE Tutorial by Swee Lim, Phelim O'Doherty, David Ferry, and David Page
• JAIN/SLEE: EJB for Communications; article by Sven Haiges
• JAIN SLEE Implementation Experiences; presentation by jNETX at JAIN Technology Day, Dallas May 2004
• A SLEE for all Seasons; White paper by Open Cloud
• Java in Communications; Presentation by Steven Grover at Sun Microsystems
• JAIN Overview; Presentation by Sun Microsystems, Japan
• Tuning the Sun VM for Telco apps
• JSLEE article in JavaSpektrum^?.de - a leading German magazine

Discussion Forums

• Mobicents Contributors Forum - design discussion on Mobicents core codebase; moderate message traffic
• Mobicents Users Forum - Mobicents setup, configuration, best practices. Discussion between Mobicents users.; moderate message traffic
• JAIN SLEE Interest list - general SLEE discussions, low message traffic

Standards and Specifications

• JSR 22, JAIN SLEE 1.0
• JSR 240, JAIN SLEE 1.1
• Other Certified JAIN SLEE products
  • Open Cloud Rhino, commercial SLEE implementation
  • jNETx Feature Server, commercial SLEE implementation

Other Mobicents topics

• Command Line Interface (CLI) to Mobicents
• Mobicents Management Console
• Asterisk Resource Adapter for Mobicents
• Call Failover Example

Related Reading

• Conceptual diagram of Open Services Platform by Telcordia
• Parlay Java API Rulebook Overview; presentation by Kieran McPeake, AePONA
• SLEE and J2EE Activity Contexts(JSR 95); discussion thread at TSS
• A new convergence: Java in my network?; TelcoIberia, September 2004, page 17
• Presentation Slides from Dallas JAIN Technology Day, June 2004

Mobicents Development Tools

• Search Mobicents Source Code. A service provided by Koders.com
• SIP Scenario Generator - The SIP Scenario Generator creates SIP Call Flows or SIP scenario diagrams, in html format, of SIP messages from ethernet capture files.
• Ethereal network protocol analyzer
• SIPp is a free Open Source test tool / traffic generator for the SIP protocol.

We would like to to thank the following software vendors for providing special licenses for Mobicents committers:

• ej-technologies JProfiler

If you are a contributor and need a license for any of the tools above, send a message to the development forum.

• Maven Benefits For Mobicents

Mobicents Sub-projects

• Eclipslee is a set of Eclipse plug ins that increase development productivity for SLEE applications
• SIP RA is a sub-project dedicated to the development of a SIP capable Resource Adaptor for SLEE
• Parlay RA is a Mobicents sub-project dedicated to the development of a Resource Adaptor that will allow Parlay applications to be deployed in SLEE containers.

Changes applied by:

• MudumbaiRanganathan - 24 Aug 2004
• IvelinIvanov - 07 Mar 2005
• KilincAlkan - 4 Feb 2005