Mobile Devices and Web Services

Abstract: Service oriented architecture (SOA) presents one of modern approaches used in the process of informa-tion systems development. One of the technologies the SOA is based on are web services. Rapid development of capabilities of mobile devices (including PDAs, Smart phones or mobile telephones) as well as mobile networks opens the possibility of mobile devices to access the web services too. In this contribution there will be described selected approaches as well as models used in the process of implementation of a mobile client of information systems mainly those which make use of web services