Telecommunication companies that offering Facebook application as the part of Value Added Service (VAS) either on mobile broadband service such EVDO, 3G and Wimax should anticipate the changing on Application programming interface (API) by Facebook it self. This could happened especially on mobile facebook developer which using open source Facebook Java Application programming interface (API). Telecommunication Company which plan to provide Facebook application on the bundling mobile phone should deployseveral network elements and application client server to accommodate such Value Added Service (VAS)
To deploy Facebook application on such VAS, there are 2 components that should be deployed. The first is the Facebook client which will be inserted to the mobile phone with Facebook application. The second is middleware server which response any request comes from facebook client to facebook.com. Middleware server should interact with facebook.com so facebook client (mobile phone user) can generate facebook application and can do many activities there such as updating the status, commenting and change the profile. To interact with facebook.com, middleware server use Facebook Java Application programming interface (API) protocol provided by facebook.com itself.
Due to huge traffic especially the traffic comes from mobile facebook application trigged facebook.com to keep updating and changing the open source Java Application programming interface (API) protocol. This changing should be anticipated by mobile developer which responsible on middleware server and synchronize their facebook Java Application programming interface (API) with the new changing. More often, the changing on Facebook API is minor which means that only several sub modules were changed but it is still impacted to the customers experiences while they accessing facebook through mobile phone. The impact of API changing which did not synchronized on midlleware server could be time out response while mobile user tries to access facebook.com. Facebook mobile developer should anticipate this API changing that may come anytime.
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