Customer Reviews

WAP Servlets: Developing Dynamic Web Content With Java and WML (With CD-ROM)

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The author makes a good attempt at describing how Java Servlets could be used for a WAP application. Though the intention of the author is good, the examples are made unecessarily complicated to demostrate simple concepts that could confuse a beginner. The Servlet version used in this book is rather outdated (v2.1) and the discussion on WAP and WML is just enough to explain the examples specifically developed for this book. There is also a big chapter in this book explaining the outdated servlet 2.1 api.

Given the high cost of this book, the readers are better off buying a book on WAP and a book on Servlets separately. (Most of the books on Servlets discuss how to use XML with servlets.)

I found this book very helpful in getting started with WAP. The first couple of chapters had simple, easy to follow examples for accessing features of WML and servlets. I found the WAP web servlet example a great way to get started developing my own WAP site. Using this code and the servlet engine (included on the disk) I had a site up an running in a day!

As a newcomer to WAP and Java Servlets, I found this book to be informative with an excellent introduction to both WAP/WML and Java Servlets. This book is written in such a way that its like the author is sitting right next to me to answer questions. This book contains lots of usable examples which I found very useful, sort of a cook book (no punn intended). I would recommend this book to the neophyte as well as the seasoned programmer.

The book does an excellent job of explaining the concepts of wireless application protocols. But it is somewhat lacking in providing some good practical examples which users could try. For theoritical concepts, the book is amazing.