Essential WAP for Web Professionals - Softcover

Hougland, Damon; Zafar, Khurram; Brown, Micah

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0130925683 ISBN 13: 9780130925688

Publisher: Prentice Hall Ptr, 2001

Synopsis

Covers the WAP basics and supporting technologies, then gets you up and running with WAP code. Features practical code examples in 4 different Web-based programming languages - ASP, JSP, Perl, & Java servlets.

About this title

About the Author

DAMON HOUGLAND is the co-author of Core JSP and Essential JSP for Web Professionals, both published by Prentice Hall PTR. He is a Senior Director of Operations for eFORCE, Inc., where he designs and architects Java enterprise applications. He is in charge of leading project operations and delivery for wireless and eBusiness integration projects. He has worked in system integration and system administration at companies such as Sun Microsystems, Palm Computing, and Motorola over the last nine years.

KHURRAM ZAFAR is an Associate Vice President of Technology at eFORCE, Inc., an eBusiness systems integration firm. Khurram is currently in charge of developing the Wireless and B2B practices at eFORCE while overseeing successful execution of western-region wireless, B2B, and eCRM projects. He has served in project-management and technical-architect roles in numerous cutting-edge projects at companies like Northern Telecom and PageNet, a leading provider of wireless messaging services. He holds a bachelors degree in computer engineering from McGill University in Canada.

From the Back Cover

• Get results with WAP—today!
• Learn from complete sample applications and a live Web site
• WAP/WML development techniques—quick, clear, and handy!
• Covers server-side WAP with ASP, JSP, Servlets, and Perl
• Endorsed by WOW (The World Organization of Webmasters)

By the year 2004, over a billion wireless devices will access the Internet—and most will use WAP, the #1 solution for delivering wireless and m-commerce content. In this compact, example-rich guide, Web developers will discover exactly how to build practical applications with WAP-and join the wireless Internet revolution! Essential WAP for Web Professionals offers no-nonsense, practical introductions to the key elements of WAP systems, and the key techniques of WML/WMLScript development. It also contains complete WAP server-side applications built with four leading tools: ASP, Perl, JSP, and Servlets—all viewable and downloadable on the Web!

You'll learn all this, and much more!

• Setting up a WAP development environment
• Understanding WAP network, software, and hardware modules
• Using WML elements, attributes, variables, task and event elements
• Using graphics effectively in wireless applications
• Maximizing WAP security
• Getting ready for the future of WAP: richer content, more interactive applications

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Foreword

Imagine that one of the foremost computer-science theoreticians, Don Knuth, and one of the most practical solution architects, Jim McConnell, co-authored a book on wireless technology, and you now have a good view on what to expect from Essential WAP for Web Professionals by Damon Hougland and Khurram Zafar.

While the industry trade publications are replete with sensational but often vacuous information about wireless, and the scientific publications cover the technology in arcane detail, the only other source for good credible information on WAP (wireless application protocol) is voluminous standards documents. What the industry seems to lack is a practical definition of WAP technology. Essential WAP... addresses this important void and serves up a very important body of practical knowledge.

Damon and Khurram are my colleagues at eFORCE. They work as a technical leadership team, helping Global 2000 organizations refine their strategic goals, and define practical solutions that meet their time to market goals, technology and budget constraints. Unlike other books in this area, Essential WAP for Web Professionals is based on years of practical experience coupled with a solid theoretical knowledge — an unparalleled combination that makes this book unique. However, this book is not about eFORCE or skewed toward any particular vendor's WAP implementation, making it very unbiased and the only book of that nature that I know.

Essential WAP for Web Professionals covers all the basic concepts involved in WAP and has a repertoire of practical application examples. If you are a hands-on developer, I can personally guarantee these examples will provide the most effective means to battle the learning curve in WAP technologies. Others will gain a practical insight into the nuances about wireless architectures and unique aspects involved in developing wireless solutions.

I promise that no one will ever accuse Damon or Khurram of taking an academic approach. This book comes from The School of Hard Knocks. Damon and Khurram are two of the sharpest minds out there, combining the theoretical abstractions and practical rigors needed to deliver critical business solutions. While this is important to any enterprise computing solution, this blend is especially imperative with newer technologies, like Wireless. WAP technologies, standards and applications will continue to evolve at a very fast pace. With this evolution, WAP as a standard will morph and transform, and in a couple of years the standard will look very different from the way it looks today. However, the core concepts and approaches outlined in this book will remain a solid foundation for practitioners and the way they approach wireless solution deployments.

I hope you enjoy it as much as I did.— Nat D. Natraj, CEO
eFORCE

Edition details

• Publisher: Prentice Hall Ptr
• Publication date: 2001
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0130925683
• ISBN 13: 9780130925688
• Binding: Paperback
• Edition number: 1
• Number of pages: 256