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The Wireless Application Protocol: Writing Applications for the Mobile Internet

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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.

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.

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.

This book is complete. To the best of my knowledge it is the most complete book you can find. The only problem I see with this book is that, the author spend too much time explaining the background of the WAP protocol. Personally I care less about the historical side view.

I run an intranet portal and needed to convert it for use by WAP phones. A friend referred me to this book, and it was exactly what I needed.

The book walks you through the WAP technology step-by-step. It began by explaining what could be done from WAP phones, explained the infrastructure I would need, and how it all fits together.

The heart of the book is its detailed discussion of WML and WMLScript. It is full of useful sample code, and the book's web site offers more sample code. After I understood how to write WML, the book explained how to really use it -- to write usable content.

Finally, I learned about the emerging WAP standards (push, WTA, ...) which are helping me to plan how I will use WAP in the future.

This book does an excellent job of describing things from the perspective of the standards, but does not always acurately articulate reality. There are many things in the specifications that are not yet implemented, and are likely to be dropped or re-worked in the future before they appear as features in real handsets, WTA in particular. No device manufacturer has implemented, nor has plans to implement WTA features which this book states "can almost be guaranteed to work and behave consistently across current and future networks and across a wide range of mobile clients"

Hi, fellows ! The book is really easy to read, i agree with previous reader. And who still thinks, that this is a good technologie, i will recommend it. There are practical all things, what you need to develop a WAP solution.

But, what about is this book ? About WAP - technological useless solution for wide marketing actions. Dear fellows, WAP is out, and there is no back for this technologie. Just wait a little bit the new UMTS system and we will se, what technologie will bring with itself.

If you think in your enterprice about this solution - forget it. And finaly don't buy this one, you can cabbage some money for beer or another book.