Customer Reviews

Dynamic Wap Application Development

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This is the ONLY book I've been able to find that covers all aspects of mobile development. That it covers HDML and voiceXML is quite nice. There are sections on migrating HDML to WML, and on designing mobile applications, also very helpful.

For my money, this is the WAP book to own. The cover certainly is goofy, though :-).

A nice book, pretty thorough. Examples were consistent across sections, lots of images and code are helpful. Covers database access and ASP/Java through WAP. Probably the one to keep on the shelf if you are like me and are one of the few actually doing WAP development.

My development team is just beginning to work with mobile applications, and I've looked through many of the books on the topic that are available -- this is the best by far. Especially nice is that this book covers a lot of topics *beyond* WAP -- particularly useful is the section on HDML, the markup language the preceded WAP but is still found everywhere. It even includes a section on Voice XML (which has nothing to do with WAP at all) but it was a nice addition.

My only nit-pick is that in some cases the authors tried too hard to be beginner-friendly (is it really necessary to inform the reader that a variable is "a container that holds a piece of information that can change." In spite of this one complaint, the book is useful for beginners and experienced developers alike, has a lot of screen shots and code examples, and provides a broad scope of information.

Although I basically agree with the other review of this book, I wanted to point out that the index could use some work. For example, I wanted to find a particular WML tag in the index and couldn't find it. Finally, I noticed that there was an index entry called "WML elements" and the tag I needed was *subindexed* under that.

I think that each tag needs to have a separate entry if the index is going to be seriously useful. In a reference book like this one, it's important.