title: Java send and receive SMS. Free SMS gateway?
body: <p>On some questions here on SOverflow I found <a href="https://labs.ericsson.com/apis/sms-send-and-receive/" rel="noreferrer">THIS</a>. But it says that it is not avaiable at the moment and probably it will never get avaiable.</p>
  
  <p>Based on <a href="https://stackoverflow.com/questions/84282/what-can-you-use-to-get-an-application-to-be-able-to-receive-sms-message">THIS</a> I realised that there is no need on building my own SMS service.</p>
  
  <p>So the question:</p>
  
  <p><strong>My java application has to send SMS messages to users and receive SMS messages from users.
  Do I really need to pay some SMS gateway or is there some free SMS GATEWAY (with some limitations ofcourse) that I could use to test my application?</strong></p>
  
  <p><a href="http://www.tucows.com/preview/221572" rel="noreferrer">Simplewire Kit</a> looks really simple but the demo examples are failing because I don' have <a href="http://www.simplewire.com/index.html" rel="noreferrer">Simplewire account</a>. Simplewire documentation says that there is a 30-day trial for sending SMS. But this is for two way: </p>
  
  <p><em>"For 2-Way, demo credits are not available because you will need your
  own mobile number hosted on Simplewire’s Network. Simplewire
  supports 2-Way numbers for many different countries and area
  codes. Please contact Simplewire for more information."</em></p>