Hi,
We are developing a solution that helps companies that mantain elevators and send technicians to repair them. Our system has a J2EE backend and we immagine techinicans connecting to our web site via GSM and the net. One of the requirements that we have is that a technician should be able to gather a signature on the field. Does the mobile platform offer a way to input a signature directly on the form? If not, we are thinking of two alternatives; One is that the form is in Flash and we trace the signature and send the bitmap, we don't know flash so we don't like that solution but can anyone tell us wheter any and which of the various mobile platform OS's offer a flash integrated in the browser? Two, inputting the form data, generating a pocket word document server side and sending it to the pda, allowing the technician to open this document in Pocket Word and simply insert the signature on the precompiled word document and send it to us. That leaves us with the problems on how to generate a pocket word document with java, what are the limitations of the file format, is there a new generation for that format like the new docx for office 2005 etc etc?
Do you have any other ideas on how to resolve the problem and which model would you suggest? TIA