The Wireless Application Protocol (WAP) will liberate the Web from wires, enabling anywhere/anytime access to virtually any data or application. In this book, leaders of the WAP standards process present the most complete discussion of the new WAP 1.1 standards, architecture, specification, and application development. This book gives decision-makers the information they need to plan strategies, and developers the information they need to build solutions -- starting today. It begins with an overview of WAP 1.1, describing the motivation behind the standards, and the relationships between each component of the WAP specification. Next, it discusses each component, covering fundamental design principles and operations. The book delivers in-depth guidance for developing WAP applications, covering user interface design, push messaging, the XML-based Wireless Markup Language (WML), scripting with WMLScript and WTAI, and more.
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The Wireless Application Protocol (WAP) and its related specifications seem likely to be the technologies that really bring inexpensive Internet connectivity to the masses; many studies predict that wireless Internet devices will outnumber traditional computer terminals within a couple of years. The Wireless Application Protocol: Writing Applications for the Mobile Internet explores the WAP suite of protocols and languages, taking an approach that suits systems architects and organizational visionaries as well as software developers. The authors--participants in the standards-setting WAP Forum--explain how the pieces of the WAP development and delivery puzzle fit together before dissecting those pieces individually.
Wireless Markup Language (WML) and Wireless Markup Language Script (WMLScript) get the most careful and complete documentation. The coverage of WML here is richer in text than in typical markup language references. The authors have chosen to explain each of WML's smallish set of tags with lots of commentary, code samples, and illustrations, as well as a table that lists legal attributes and their valid values. The WMLScript documentation is less elaborately embroidered on the level of individual functions, but a sizable section on usability and design standards--complete with photographs of various interfaces rendered by different physical devices--more than compensates. Plus, the authors cover push messaging and Wireless Telephony Applications (WTA), subjects that other popular WAP books neglect.
A serious developer of solutions that employ WAP, WML, and their related technologies will already have several books on the subject (including, probably, Professional WAP and Beginning WAP, WML, and WMLScript). This one has earned a place on the shelf. --David Wall
Topics covered: The Wireless Application Protocol (WAP) specification (version 1.2.1) and the application-development standards that ride on top of it. Coverage includes Wireless Markup Language (WML), Wireless Markup Language Script (WMLScript), push messaging and Wireless Telephony Applications (WTA). Sections address design and efficiency issues.
From the Author
I still remember the day in early 1999, when Sandeep, Stefan and I first discussed the idea of writing a book on WAP. Over lunch our idea quickly took form and shape. The goal was to provide the reader with the most comprehensive, up-to-date information about WAP, in an environment where the technology and the market were evolving rapidly. Our strategy therefore involved forming a large team that represented different sections of the mobile data industry and complemented each other through specialization in different areas of the technology through both, product implementation and standards development.
This book gives you a complete picture on how to develop and deploy WAP services and integrate them into your existing Web environment. We begin with a background on the mobile Internet revolution discussing market convergence, business issues and potential applications. We then delve into the technical challenges associated with implementing various basic and enhanced WAP capabilities. Throughout the book, we pay careful attention to helping you write WAP content that will work on all devices and browsers.
I believe that we have pulled together a manuscript that is easy to read despite our distance (across continents), differences in writing styles (arising from our language and culture differences), and our busy schedules with full time jobs and families
I hope you derive as much value from using the book as we have had in writing it. I look forward to your comments, thoughts and feedback.
Thanks. Lalitha
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10 of 11 people found the following review helpful:
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Everything you need to write great content!,
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This review is from: The Wireless Application Protocol: Writing Applications for the Mobile Internet (Hardcover)
This book is the most complete book I've seen on WAP -- it covers alot of topics that others books don't, such as WTA and Push. It also provides a great background on wireless and why WAP was developed (and why).Most of all, the book teaches how to write content for all phones, not just a single one. This is difficult, as the book keeps pointing out, but it guides you through all the gotchas. The UI chapter is a big help too. I highly recommend the book to anyone who wants to write great WAP content.
7 of 8 people found the following review helpful:
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All you need in WAP,
By MARK BEAULIEU (Santa Cruz, CA United States) - See all my reviews
This review is from: The Wireless Application Protocol: Writing Applications for the Mobile Internet (Hardcover)
Whether you love it or hate it - WAP is here to stay. For many it is a necessary engineering pothole to fill. This book is a clearly written guide and reference. Of all my WAP books, this sits in easiest reach. The writing is solid, the topics up to date, and the subject is comprehensive. It is also a cohesive engineering view of WAP elements. I would strongly recommend this as a teaching text as well. The book takes you from the very beginning and moves cohesively into the advanced subjects of WML and WAP. A true resource for those of us that need to support the web phone market.
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This review is from: The Wireless Application Protocol: Writing Applications for the Mobile Internet (Hardcover)
I love this book. It's complete, goes right into the details and is clearly written. I cannot think of a higher compliment to pay a book or author. If you're a WAP developer or are ramping up for a WAP development project this book will get you there. I loved the treatment of WML, deploying services and wireless telephony applications. I highly recommend this book.
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