Essential WAP for Web Professionals (Ph/Ptr Essential Web Professionals Series) - Softcover

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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.

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• 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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