Wireless Java Programming for Enterprise Applications: Mobile Devices Go Corporate - Softcover

Harkey, Dan; Appajodu, Shan; Larkin, Mike

 
9780471218784: Wireless Java Programming for Enterprise Applications: Mobile Devices Go Corporate

Synopsis

* Offers timely material, and is anticipated that over 80% of Fortune 1000 companies will incorporate mobile devices and wireless applications into their existing systems over the next two-five years.
* Authors utilize XML and related technologies such as XSL and XSLT as well as Web services for server-sided application construction.
* Details how to build a complete enterprise application using all of the technologies discussed in the book.
* Web site updates the example application built as well as additional wireless Java links and software.

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About the Author

DAN HARKEY is coauthor of the award-winning and bestselling books Client/Server Programming with Java and CORBA and Client/Server Survival Guide. Harkey is a cofounder of the client/server computing graduate program at San Jose State University, and he has more than twenty-four years of experience at IBM and in academia.

SHAN APPAJODU is a senior R&D engineer in the enterprise business unit of Borland Corporation and faculty at San Jose State University. Appajodu has more than seven years of experience in telecommunications and distributed computing environments.

MIKE LARKIN is a software engineer in IBM's storage systems division and is a member of the faculty at San Jose State University. Larkin has more than seven years of professional experience in a variety of wireless and enterprise systems-including J2ME, J2EE, and Web Services.

From the Back Cover

Learn how to utilize and combine today's most important Java wireless technologies

Whether you are a seasoned wireless device programmer looking to extend your applications to the enterprise or an enterprise programmer planning to make your applications available anywhere and anytime using wireless devices, this book is for you.

Written by bestselling author Dan Harkey, with Shan Appajodu and Mike Larkin, this comprehensive book:
* Describes a broad architecture for integrating wireless devices into enterprise applications
* Surveys technologies for handheld devices that act as clients for enterprise applications-including handheld device features, wireless networking standards (1G to 4G), service technologies, middleware, content formats, and Java 2 Micro Edition (J2ME)
* Gives in-depth programming tutorials for developing client applications using the Wireless Markup Language (WML), J2ME's Mobile Information Device Profile (MIDP), VoiceXML, Java Card, and Bluetooth
* Describes the role enterprise technologies play for supporting wireless device applications-including using Java 2 Enterprise Edition (J2EE) as a platform for developing the transcoding and personalization infrastructure for wireless devices and as a platform for writing applications
* Explores Web services (SOAP, UDDI, and WSDL) as technologies for extending and integrating applications, and XML processing as a means to connect MIDP applications to the enterprise infrastructure
* Provides an end-to-end application called the Campus Portal for Wireless Devices, which implements an architecture for supporting wireless clients and provides services for a university environment

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