Building PDA Databases for Wireless and Mobile Development [Paperback]

Robert Laberge (Author), Srdjan Vujosevic (Author)

Book Description

ISBN-10: 0471216453 | ISBN-13: 978-0471216452 | Publication Date: October 11, 2002 | Edition: 1

• Introduces the mobile databases (their architecture and features) and how they operate and handle the essential task of synchronization.
• Explains how the enterprise work force can move to a handheld device and still have easy access to corporate databases.
• Web site contains all source code for working examples of applications showing mobile databases in use.
• Foreword and endorsement by Bill Inmon, the "Father of Data Warehousing."

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From the Back Cover

Learn how to build databases on personal digital devices to be used with PDA applications

Several years ago, the business community accepted the Internet as a viable solution to extending the corporate environment. Today, there is another movement towards enhancing this methodology-- empowering mobile wireless business users with increasingly powerful PDAs.

Robert Laberge and Srdjan Vujosevic have written the first book ever to cover mobile database development. They discuss the many methods of connecting to the Internet, Intranet, or a specific computer and how they are all viable business solutions for today's large, medium, and small corporations.

In addition, they offer detailed discussions of such topics as:
* Basics of the mobile wireless environment, including a quick view of WAP technology and an overview of PDAs and their environments
* The client-server methodology-what it is and how it applies to PDAs
* Data warehousing-centralizing departmental information for everyone in an organization to access
* Palm as a whole, in addition to Pocket PC from Microsoft
* Tools needed for building an application to access data on a PDA
* The Sybase solution to PDA databases-the components from Sybase, and an example using specific pieces of the offering
* IBM's DB2 solution-a discussion on the components, and an easy-to-follow application using the components

The companion Web site contains all the source code for the sample applications in the book.

About the Author

ROBERT LABERGE is cofounder and President of WaveDev.com, a wireless Internet WAP-based portal. Laberge has twenty-one years of experience in IT as a database administrator, data warehouse architect/administrator, systems integrator, and wireless application developer. In addition, Laberge is a frequent contributor to technical publications on the subjects of wireless and database technologies. He is also the lead author of WAP Integration: Professional Developer's Guide (Wiley).

SRDJAN VUJOSEVIC is Senior Systems Architect with Toronto-based BDP Business Data Services. In addition, he is cofounder of WaveDev.com and designed the code and implementation for the WAP portal. Vujosevic has seventeen years of experience as an engineer, database administrator, programmer, and application developer. Vujosevic is coauthor of WAP Integration: Professional Developer's Guide (Wiley).

Product Details

• Paperback: 320 pages
• Publisher: Wiley; 1 edition (October 11, 2002)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 0471216453
• ISBN-13: 978-0471216452
• Product Dimensions: 9.2 x 7.5 x 0.7 inches
• Shipping Weight: 1.3 pounds (View shipping rates and policies)
• Average Customer Review: 3.8 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (5 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #2,635,986 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)

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1 of 1 people found the following review helpful:

1.0 out of 5 stars not worth your money, September 26, 2003

By A Customer

This review is from: Building PDA Databases for Wireless and Mobile Development (Paperback)

I thoroughly examined this book and found that there is not a single piece of information in this book that cannot be found on internet in matter of seconds. My advice is: save your money

0 of 1 people found the following review helpful:

4.0 out of 5 stars A good reading for novice and intermediate mobile developer, October 4, 2003

By A Customer

This review is from: Building PDA Databases for Wireless and Mobile Development (Paperback)

Examples in this book are just great. I have built my own application based on a couple of them. It really have helped me and guided me through step by step. Now I know how to do it on my own.

Thanks guys.

0 of 1 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars I did not know that PALM development can be so easy, October 31, 2002

By A Customer

This review is from: Building PDA Databases for Wireless and Mobile Development (Paperback)

I was always intrigued about the ways to make those small pocket size device to do what I want and I have believed that in order to make the programs for the Pocket PC's you have to be software "guru". This book was eye opener for me. I now know "how to" develop portable databases in efficient and professional way with ease. I would recommend this book to everyone who plan to develop PALM or Pocket PC based applications that will utilize major database engines.