Practical WAP
Practical WAP
$54.99
USDThis is an intermediate-level guide to building WAP applications. The Wireless Application Protocol (WAP) provides the technological framework for combining mobile communications with Internet technologies. WAP opens up the Web to a vastly expanded audience, allowing new types of applications to take advantage of user location, provide time-critical information, and offer personalized content. This book details the WAP Forum, mobile devices, and what makes a good WAP application. Using real world examples, this book examines the WAP standards, focusing on those essential to building working WAP applications. It outlines the critical success factors in designing WAP applications and helps the reader select the right architecture for his or her WAP project. Complete tutorials on WML (the HTML of wireless web), WMLScript, and Push technology are combined with the many examples to make Practical Wap ideal for software developers, architects, and managers.
- Contains real-world examples and detailed architectural discussions
- Completely original material
- Features tutorials on WML, WMLScript, IMAGE, and other relevant wireless application technologies
Reviews & endorsements
'Practical WAP is the first book you should but on the Wireless Application Protocol. Bennett has provided an excellent and current guidebook to the complex and shifting landscape of WAP standards. It is concise. timely and Pragmatic.' K. Scott Morrison, Infowave Software Inc.
'Good resource book. Everything you need to get set up and writing WAP apps.' Edward O'Leary Director, Network Strategy, Rogers Wireless
'… the book as a whole is most relevant to designers, system architects and others of a more technical bent getting into WAP. This audience should find the book both useful and enlightening.' Steve Goodwin, Computing and Control Engineering Journal
Product details
May 2001Paperback
9780521005616
448 pages
229 × 154 × 24 mm
0.602kg
50 b/w illus.
Available
Table of Contents
- Part I. A WAP Primer:
- 1 Introduction
- 2 Technical overview
- 3 Applications
- 4 Tools
- Part II. The WAP Development Standards:
- 5 Wireless Markup Language
- 6 Wireless Markup Language - beyond the basics
- 7 WMLScript
- 8 Push applications
- Part III. WAP in Practice:
- 9 Design factors
- 10 Architectures
- 11 Usability and testing
- 12 Application development case study
- 13 Future of WAP
- Appendix A. WML 1.3 Reference
- Appendix B. Source code
- Glossary.
