Programming Applications with the Wireless Application Protocol: The Complete Developer's Guide (WAP)

click here for more details, find new or used items	Steve Mann New from £8.66 Used from £0.02 Pages: 256 (Hardcover) ISBN: 0471327549 Pub: John Wiley & Sons Pub date: 2000-01-20 Amazon.co.uk Sales Rank: 1066136

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Topics covered: The Wireless Application Protocol (WAP), versions 1.0 and 1.1, and its cast of supporting technologies, especially Wireless Mark-up Language (WML) and WMLScript. There is material on the inner workings of a WML content server, graphics, and internationalisation techniques.

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Good book, used this for my MSc dissertation. (0/0 people found this helpful)

I used to book to study about the WAP protocol and learn how to use WML and WMLScript. I used this book for my MSc Computer Science dissertation and it provides good example, although there some errors in the code.

This book gives a good all round explanation of WAP, WML and WMLScript. A good purchase.

There are better books out there (0/0 people found this helpful)

This book is already out of date. Still, it does an adequate job of teaching the basics of WML and WMLScript, as well as the underlying principles of how WAP works. However, if you want more detailed information on WAP and existing internet technologies (ASP, XML) and some insight into the forthcoming changes/additions to the specifications I STRONGLY recommend all but the most insecure WAP newbies out there buy "Professional WAP" instead - the book I bought to replace this.

Bringing a touch of reality (0/0 people found this helpful)

Hi, I'm a Masters student specialising in software engineering and as WAP goes, this is a good book. It teaches you everything you will ever need to know about WAP and how it works.

From a programming book, I've read the entire book, tried every single example going, and from the middle of chapter 2 onwards, DON'T expect the examples to work!

I've a Nokia 7110 and it's very discouraging for someone who is trying to learn WML to find a book which claims to teach but only aggrevates the reader. The code looks good, unfortunate really that none of the examples work. I can't emphasise this point enough.

WAP Content: 5 stars WML Content: 0 stars Overall: 1 star, as understanding how WAP works is only a very small part of the book's emphasis.

Good introduction to WAP, will get you up to speed quickly. (0/0 people found this helpful)

A very good inroduction to WAP.

Covers WML, WMLScript etc reasonably well.

You will need additional books to become a fully fledged programmer in WAP, but it does a good job of starting you of.

An good introduction to WAP/WML (0/0 people found this helpful)

Worth every penny! Steve Mann has done a good no-nonsense job of introducing WML to the budding WAP developer.

This is no heavyweight tome. Chapter 1 is an introduction to what WAP is all about, while Chapter 2 gets straight into the basics of WML. WMLScript is introduced and explained in the next chapter (i'd have liked more detail here) and then it's hands-on with a worked example in Chapter 4. There's also a very good chapter on internationalising your applications. A CDROM is included, with all of the source code from the book as well as Phone.com's WAP SDK.

It's a good tutorial and get-you-started. Although subtitled "The Complete Developer's Guide", once you've worked through it will probably gather dust as the WAP specifications become your reference text. But if you've spent hours wading through the specs trying to understand what it's all about, this book will save you lots of time and headaches.

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