Design and Implementation of Mobile Portal for Kenyan Pastoralists
Design and Implementation of Mobile Portal for Kenyan Pastoralists作者机构:Department of Information Technology School of Information Sciences Moi University Eldoret Kenya
出 版 物:《Journal of Software Engineering and Applications》 (软件工程与应用(英文))
年 卷 期:2017年第10卷第12期
页 面:884-890页
学科分类:081203[工学-计算机应用技术] 08[工学] 0835[工学-软件工程] 0812[工学-计算机科学与技术(可授工学、理学学位)]
主 题:Mobile Portal Portal J2ME Systems Development Life Cycle (SDLC) Pastoralists
摘 要:A mobile portal is an internet gateway that provides online services primarily accessed via mobiles and other handheld devices. Mobile portals are part of web 3.0 that is starting to revolutionize online services. Such portals can help pastoralists in Kenya access essential information and marketing services online. The aim of the study was to design and implement a mobile portal that will help Kenyan pastoralists improve their yields. The study adopted systems development life cycle (SDLC) methodology to design, implement and test the portal and used structured interviews and observation to collect user requirements. The portal was coded in J2ME, JSP and SQL languages and developed using Java Development Kit (JDK), Sun Wireless Toolkit, Lightweight User Interface Toolkit (LWUIT), Struts, Tomcat and MySQL. The outcome of the study was the mobile portal successfully developed, tested and deployed.