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12 <concept id="GUID-1AFDDD6F-CB99-587D-A0B5-D3F5B27F7135" xml:lang="en"><title>Concepts</title><prolog><metadata><keywords/></metadata></prolog><conbody> |
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13 <p>This section describes the ideas that underly the Comms Database. </p> |
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14 <p>The Comms Database provides system wide storage for communications related |
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15 settings. The Comms Database holds information about Internet Access Providers |
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16 (IAPs), Internet Service Providers (ISPs), GPRS, modems, locations, charge-cards, |
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17 proxies, WAP settings etc. The Comms Database holds this information as a |
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18 set of related tables. </p> |
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19 <p>Symbian platform defines the format of this information, but the Comms |
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20 Database can also contain user-defined data. Symbian support for user-defined |
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21 data is limited to backup and security. </p> |
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22 <p>Tools and applications that manage voice and data transmissions use the |
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23 Comms Database. </p> |
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24 <p>The Comms Database is a persistent store. Tools and applications use the |
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25 CommsDat API to access the data in the Comms Database. The CommsDat API hides |
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26 the structure of the data on the database. The CommsDat API also hides the |
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27 implementation of the database, and allows the implementation to change in |
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28 future versions of Symbian platform without a change to client code. </p> |
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29 <p>The current version of Symbian platform implements the Comms |
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30 Database in the Central Repository. </p> |
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31 <p>The Comms Database is available on all Symbian platforms. </p> |
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32 <fig id="GUID-51EC89D3-B9BF-5074-95C7-8C8304626F6E"> |
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33 <image href="GUID-DF83E798-408C-5E69-9520-A733DAEAB788_d0e85804_href.png" placement="inline"/> |
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34 </fig> |
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35 </conbody><related-links> |
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36 <link href="GUID-00696F18-F1C8-5810-A9F9-E7215CA451A4.dita"><linktext>Configuring |
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37 comms database using CED</linktext></link> |
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38 <link href="GUID-A0948145-32C3-5754-B76D-AD7A8AF001A2.dita"><linktext>Comms database |
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39 configuration file format</linktext></link> |
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40 </related-links></concept> |