WAP Technology and Applications

Dedicated to the rapidly developing area of telecommunications systems (wireless communication), this book explains the essence of the standards joined together under the name WAP. It describes the main properties and distinguishing features of WAP applications, and contains a detailed description of the architecture and key elements of WAP technology: WAP browsers, WAP gateways, WAP clients, and the WAP-content server, which consists of an http server, an application server, and a database server. The techniques for developing WAP systems are demonstrated, while each step of the project is analyzed separately. A description of the peculiarities of WAP development tools such as WML, WML script, the Software Development Kit of various wireless terminals, and the WAP application server (the ColdFusion server) is also included. Real projects are examined and then compared to the traditional Internet applications (WAP office, banking and finance applications, e-commerce), as well as to new services which are not present on the Internet (telephone services, voice mail, integration with existing personal information systems).
 
Dedicated to the rapidly developing area of telecommunications systems (wireless communication), this book explains the essence of the standards joined together under the name WAP. It describes the main properties and distinguishing features of WAP applications, and contains a detailed description of the architecture and key elements of WAP technology: WAP browsers, WAP gateways, WAP clients, and the WAP-content server, which consists of an http server, an application server, and a database server. The techniques for developing WAP systems are demonstrated, while each step of the project is analyzed separately. A description of the peculiarities of WAP development tools such as WML, WML script, the Software Development Kit of various wireless terminals, and the WAP application server (the ColdFusion server) is also included. Real projects are examined and then compared to the traditional Internet applications (WAP office, banking and finance applications, e-commerce), as well as to new services which are not present on the Internet (telephone services, voice mail, integration with existing personal information systems).