DSM Objectives The objective of the DSM solution was to make application
development possible for a fundamentally larger audience: people having little or no
experience in programming Symbian/S60 applications. Following the original idea
behind the Python framework of making application development easier, the DSM
approach was seen to make it even easier while still guaranteeing that the framework
is used correctly. The main idea was to get a situation where the developer could draw
a picture of the application and then generate it to be executed in a target device. This
quick and easy development approach was considered important for companies who
wished to make some of their in-house applications mobile but did not have enough
experience in mobile application development. The language would have the rules of
the architecture and UI programming model so that a developer could focus on
application functions and design, not on their implementation details.
8.2 DEVELOPMENT PROCESS
DSM de?¬?nition started when the ?¬?rst public release of the Python framework was
made available as a technology preview. During the DSM de?¬?nition process, the
framework??™s API became larger and about 15% of the APIs changed before the
of?¬?cial release (version 1.0, Nokia, 2004). Since then newservices have been added to
the API but the basic structure and programming model have remained the same.
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