Building Dynamic WAP Applications with MobileDev [Paperback]

Leslie Hirst (Author), Stephane Hogue (Author), Nicolas Fortin (Author)

Book Description

Publication Date: August 17, 2001

This book contains basic information necessary for WAP development as well as the first professional GUI tool for building WAP applications. It presents a proven methodology for building WAP applications and includes two of the major SDKs will allow the reader to test their applications in the environment where they will be used.

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This book contains basic information necessary for WAP development as well as the first professional GUI tool for building WAP applications. It presents a proven methodology for building WAP applications and includes two of the major SDKs will allow the readers to test applications in the environment where they will be used.

About the Author

Stephane Hogue is an award-winning technical writer at Speedware Corporation, the company that produces MobileDev and other application development tools. In his eight years at Speedware, he has worked on manuals, course workbooks, and online help for Web and 4GL design tools as well as on business intelligence products. He has also been a featured speaker at conferences. Stephane particularly enjoys working with and explaining cutting-edge technology. Leslie Hirst is a technical writer and manager of Technical Documentation at Speedware. She has worked on everything from white papers to workbooks, including reference manuals, quick-reference guides, getting-started tutorials, online CDs, and conference papers. Like Stephane, Leslie is an award winner, winning more than 12 technical-writing awards in the past ten years. Leslie really likes creating databases and applications to explain complicated concepts in a simple manner. Nicolas Fortin is the Product Marketing Manager for Wireless Solutions at Speedware Corporation. In his 12 years with Speedware, Nick has been involved with many technologies, including mobile Internet concepts. As part of his achievements, he has created a WAP airline-reservation system and has been a key reference for various WAP-related endeavors, such as conferences, articles, white papers, and books, while managing MobileDev, Speedware's professional application development software specifically designed for the mobile Internet.

Product Details

• Paperback: 350 pages
• Publisher: Sams (August 17, 2001)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 0672321777
• ISBN-13: 978-0672321771
• Product Dimensions: 9.1 x 7.4 x 0.8 inches
• Shipping Weight: 1.3 pounds (View shipping rates and policies)
• Average Customer Review: 3.3 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (3 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #4,894,807 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)

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2 of 3 people found the following review helpful:

1.0 out of 5 stars AVOID this book, January 4, 2002

By A Customer

This review is from: Building Dynamic WAP Applications with MobileDev (Paperback)

This book is of little use if you're not using MobileDev, but after registering 3 times, emailing and calling the company I still haven't received the "key" that's needed to get the software to run.

The version on the included CDROM is also out of date, as is the Nokia SDK.

Save yourself the hassle.

2 of 3 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Learn WML easy !, September 6, 2001

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"ex-thumper" (Vancouver) - See all my reviews

This review is from: Building Dynamic WAP Applications with MobileDev (Paperback)

I really like the approach this book is taking.
Using MobileDev, the software included, really made it easy for me to develop my first WAP application.

4.0 out of 5 stars Good Starter, March 23, 2002

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Jeremy Patterson (Software Developer) (Upper Arlington, Ohio United States) - See all my reviews

This review is from: Building Dynamic WAP Applications with MobileDev (Paperback)

I thought this book was a really good place to start learning about developing WAP applications. I develop Web applications using ASP, SQL Server, and Access and was looking for a quick guide to developing WAP applications. This book was like reading one of the Sams Teach Yourself in 21 Days series (the good ones that is), and helped me get up and running with WML in no time. It is geared towards the MobileDev IDE, but, given that it's in the title, one should expect that. And that's not a bad thing, because the software is very easy to pick up on especially if you've used other IDE development environments. And if your someone like myself who likes to use basice editors/SDKs until I know the technology, they've included a few basic WAP SDKs and emulators from Nokia and OpenWave. Also, unlike the previous reviewer above, I had no problems getting someone from Speedware Corp to respond to my questions regarding a runtime error I got on the first install.The only CONs regarding this book is they don't give you access to the DB functionality in the trial of MobileDev. Not really sure why, as it makes no sense at all to me, but it's not included in the trial. Not a big deal though if you manually set up and manage your ODBC/OLE connections with whatever you currently use. Also, there's really not a lot on WML Scripting either. Read this to get started and then get the book WAP Integration as a book to really get started using some of the more advanced features of WAP...