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The authors of this book are all active participants at the WAP Forum, the industry body responsible for the development of the WAP specifications, and their knowledge and authority shines through.
The Wireless Application Protocol is a detailed reference work on all aspects of the delivery of wireless Internet services and covers WAP versions up to and including version 1.2.1.
A large section of the book is an exhaustive reference on WML and WMLScript language features. It also includes detailed descriptions of emerging WAP technologies such as Push Messaging, UAProf (the WAP implementation of the W3C's Composite Capability/Preference Profiles, an emerging W3C standard for delivering client capabilities through an Internet network) and Wireless Telephony applications.
As stated in the Preface, this book serves "both as a tutorial and as a reference for several audiences: Business strategists and service planners; content and application developers; (and) University students and researchers". It's wealth of detail successfully delivers something of significant value to all these audiences; however developers should also check out Professional WAP by Wrox Press and readers looking for an introductory book would do better to look elsewhere.
The Wireless Application Protocol is a good "nuts and bolts" analysis of WAP technologies and will be of value to anyone looking to dig deeper than simple WML development, such as the experienced WAP professional and software engineers working on infrastructure products. --Andy Wigley
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The Wireless Application Protocol (WAP) will liberate the Web from wires, enabling anywhere/anytime access to virtually any data or application. In this book, leaders of the WAP standards process present the most complete discussion of the new WAP 1.1 standards, architecture, specification, and application development. This book gives decision-makers the information they need to plan strategies, and developers the information they need to build solutions -- starting today. It begins with an overview of WAP 1.1, describing the motivation behind the standards, and the relationships between each component of the WAP specification. Next, it discusses each component, covering fundamental design principles and operations. The book delivers in-depth guidance for developing WAP applications, covering user interface design, push messaging, the XML-based Wireless Markup Language (WML), scripting with WMLScript and WTAI, and more.
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