Product Description
- Introduces the mobile databases (their architecture and features) and how they operate and handle the essential task of synchronization.
- Explains how the enterprise work force can move to a handheld device and still have easy access to corporate databases.
- Web site contains all source code for working examples of applications showing mobile databases in use.
- Foreword and endorsement by Bill Inmon, the "Father of Data Warehousing."
From the Back Cover
Learn how to build databases on personal digital devices to be used with PDA applications
Several years ago, the business community accepted the Internet as a viable solution to extending the corporate environment. Today, there is another movement towards enhancing this methodology–– empowering mobile wireless business users with increasingly powerful PDAs.
Robert Laberge and Srdjan Vujosevic have written the first book ever to cover mobile database development. They discuss the many methods of connecting to the Internet, Intranet, or a specific computer and how they are all viable business solutions for today′s large, medium, and small corporations.
In addition, they offer detailed discussions of such topics as:
∗ Basics of the mobile wireless environment, including a quick view of WAP technology and an overview of PDAs and their environments
∗ The client–server methodology–what it is and how it applies to PDAs
∗ Data warehousing–centralizing departmental information for everyone in an organization to access
∗ Palm as a whole, in addition to Pocket PC from Microsoft
∗ Tools needed for building an application to access data on a PDA
∗ The Sybase solution to PDA databases–the components from Sybase, and an example using specific pieces of the offering
∗ IBM′s DB2 solution–a discussion on the components, and an easy–to–follow application using the components
The companion Web site contains all the source code for the sample applications in the book.
Several years ago, the business community accepted the Internet as a viable solution to extending the corporate environment. Today, there is another movement towards enhancing this methodology–– empowering mobile wireless business users with increasingly powerful PDAs.
Robert Laberge and Srdjan Vujosevic have written the first book ever to cover mobile database development. They discuss the many methods of connecting to the Internet, Intranet, or a specific computer and how they are all viable business solutions for today′s large, medium, and small corporations.
In addition, they offer detailed discussions of such topics as:
∗ Basics of the mobile wireless environment, including a quick view of WAP technology and an overview of PDAs and their environments
∗ The client–server methodology–what it is and how it applies to PDAs
∗ Data warehousing–centralizing departmental information for everyone in an organization to access
∗ Palm as a whole, in addition to Pocket PC from Microsoft
∗ Tools needed for building an application to access data on a PDA
∗ The Sybase solution to PDA databases–the components from Sybase, and an example using specific pieces of the offering
∗ IBM′s DB2 solution–a discussion on the components, and an easy–to–follow application using the components
The companion Web site contains all the source code for the sample applications in the book.
About the Author
ROBERT LABERGE is cofounder and President of WaveDev.com, a wireless Internet WAP–based portal. Laberge has twenty–one years of experience in IT as a database administrator, data warehouse architect/administrator, systems integrator, and wireless application developer. In addition, Laberge is a frequent contributor to technical publications on the subjects of wireless and database technologies. He is also the lead author of WAP Integration: Professional Developer′s Guide (Wiley).
SRDJAN VUJOSEVIC is Senior Systems Architect with Toronto–based BDP Business Data Services. In addition, he is cofounder of WaveDev.com and designed the code and implementation for the WAP portal. Vujosevic has seventeen years of experience as an engineer, database administrator, programmer, and application developer. Vujosevic is coauthor of WAP Integration: Professional Developer′s Guide (Wiley).
SRDJAN VUJOSEVIC is Senior Systems Architect with Toronto–based BDP Business Data Services. In addition, he is cofounder of WaveDev.com and designed the code and implementation for the WAP portal. Vujosevic has seventeen years of experience as an engineer, database administrator, programmer, and application developer. Vujosevic is coauthor of WAP Integration: Professional Developer′s Guide (Wiley).
