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Sams Publishing Helps Unlock the Potential of Wireless
WAP Development With WML and WML Script Applies Emerging Standards Practically
INDIANAPOLIS, Sep 11, 2000 (BUSINESS WIRE) -- Holding the Internet in your hand makes it possible to check the local weather forecast, order flowers or purchase a gift right from a mobile phone.
Developers using Wireless Application Protocol (WAP) and Wireless Markup Language (WML) to create applications for handheld devices are making these activities easier every day. Sams Publishing is pleased to announce the release of WAP Development with WML and WML Script (Sams Publishing, ISBN 0-672-31946-2, USA-$49.99) a book written by the developers of some of the first WAP applications created and designed to clearly illustrate the power and potential of WAP-based applications.
WAP is an open, global specification that empowers mobile users with wireless devices to instantly and easily interact with information and services. WAP provides secure access to internet information and other services through mobile phones, pagers and other wireless devices. WML is used to create applications that run on wireless devices.
WAP Development with WML and WML Script introduces WAP and WML as wireless application development tools and teaches the reader how to develop WML applications. Subjects include mainstream topics such as security over wireless networks, working with image files for handheld displays and interacting with wireless users. Readers will also learn about more obscure uses of WAP and WML such as dealing with a variety of micro-browser hardware and integrating into standard Web server technologies.
An accompanying CD includes Phone.com's UP.SDK, WAP documentation, evaluation copies of Allaire ColdFusion, Allaire HomeSite, Macromedia Dreamweaver and other tools featuring WAP support. All of the example code and applications explored in WAP Development with WML and WML Script is included on the CD.
For best results, the reader should be familiar with HTML and basic web technologies, and understand basic web application development. Developers will find the book easy to use because it is development language and tool independent.
ABOUT THE AUTHOR
Ben Forta, Allaire Corporation's Product Evangelist, and his co-authors are some of the first developers of WAP applications. Forta is a member of the WAP Forum, the organization that maintains the WAP/WML specification. He is a recognized authority on WAP and is a frequent lecturer and columnist on the subject.
Forta has authored several best-selling books on Allaire and other products.
ABOUT SAMS PUBLISHING
Sams Publishing began in 1946 as a leading provider of electrical books. Today, with best-selling titles such as Sams Teach Yourself HTML in 24 Hours and Red Hat Linux Unleashed, Sams Publishing is one of the largest and most successful computer book publishers in the world, with 450 titles in print that generate over 45 million in sales. Sams Publishing is focused on teaching tomorrow's programmers, developers and systems administrators the skills they need to build and maintain leading-edge technology -- from introductory tutorials to comprehensive reference books.
ABOUT MACMILLAN USA
Macmillan USA is a unit of Pearson Technology Group, the world's largest provider of consumer and professional computer, information technology, engineering and reference content. As one of the industry's leading innovators in both print and digital formats, Macmillan's imprints include Sams Publishing, Que Publishing, BradyGAMES Strategy Guides, Que Learning Systems, Macmillan Software, and Macmillan Lifestyle, publisher of the best-selling Complete Idiot's Guide line of reference books. Pearson Technology Group is an operating unit of Pearson Education, the world's leading education and professional publisher.
PRODUCT INFORMATION & AVAILABILITY SALES INFORMATION
WAP Development with WML and WML Script Sams Publishing Ben Forta, Dylan Bromby, Paul Fonte 201 W. 103rd Street and Kieth Lauer Indianapolis, IN 46290 MSRP $49.99 US 1-800-428-5331 ISBN 0-672-31946-2 500 pg.
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