Programming Applications with the Wireless Application Protocol: The Complete Developers Guide

I got this early 2000 - I still refer to it today from time to time. Although not too heavy into the technical specs / protocols in regards to WAP as a whole, it is nonetheless a very valuable primer and quick reference. Highly recommended.

This book offers a good technical introduction to the WAP protocols and also many many examples of wml and also server side example. Very useful for those trying to understand WAP. You will be motivated to learn more about how HTTP works etc after reading this book. The best thing about the book are the clear technical explanations and examples.The book was typeset by a amateur! The text flow and formatting are distracting to the reading of the book. Here are a few characteristics: 1) Inconsistent bottom margins. 2) Too much use of fancy headers. 3) Indiscriminate use of bold font. And many more...

As a developer of WAP applications, I'm glad to finally see a practical guide on how to build WAP applications. The book covers WML, WMLScript and constructing a Java server for WAP (all with worked out examples). It describes WAP specific technology (graphics, caching, internationalization) and future directions in WAP. The book reflects the author's hands on background as he mentions items to watch out for and how to debug a WAP application. The CD-ROM contains all the examples from the book and phone.com's beta 4.0 SDK. The author is closely aligned with phone.com and the book reflects their viewpoint on WAP and capabilities of their WAP gateway, but it doesn't interfere with the content of the book. The only item to note about the book is that it is based on the capabilities of the phone.com version 4 browser while most of the WAP capable devices currently on the market use the phone.com version 3.x browser, which doesn't fully support WML 1.1 (no WML Script, for example). This book is a "must-have" for every WAP developer!

This book offers a clear and thorough introduction to the Wireless Application Protocol and its associated technologies: WML, WMLScript, WBMP images. I found the chapters about building a WAP application especially useful. I recommend this book to anyone thinking about building applications for portable wireless devices.

As developers/service providers of Wireless Business Application Services our group found the book to be very useful in getting newer team members up to speed on WAP programming.