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Table of Contents

Appender AIC for the Ariba MarketPlace and Biztalk
I had to do a proof of concept project showing how to integrate the Ariba Marketplace (www.ariba.com) into a Supplier System using BizTalk Server 2000. The Ariba marketplace uses a XML standard called cXML (www.cxml.org). The cXML specification uses DTD declarations to validate documents. The Appender allows you to pre-append text to an outbound Document and also allows you to evaluate any responses via an XPath query, so that you can integrate the Ariba Marketplace with Biztalk Server 2000.

WML Applications using JavaServer Pages (JSP)
This article is about how to use JSPs in the transformation layer, and how to structure the overall framework so that only the transformation layer need be changed to retarget your application from desktop browser to WAP-enabled phone, to whatever other device/application.

VoiceXML with XSLT
This chapter examines the use of the Extensible Stylesheet Language for Transformations (XSLT) as a tool for the generation of VoiceXML. I intend to illustrate a complete, end-to-end example of implementing a voice interface for a client-server database via XML and XSL. The case study will demonstrate the power of XSL for simultaneously delivering multiple interfaces to the same data by developing HTML and WML front-ends also.

WAP for ASP Developers
Providing a complete overview of WAP, intended primarily for ASP developers but also catering for the merely curious.

Converting HTML to WML

The process of converting HTML documents into WML documents for use on WAP-enabled devices is not as simple as the alteration of the markup tags. This report investigates the problems associated with the conversion process and presents a solution through the design and implementation of a piece of conversion software.

The report details a number of problems with the conversion of complex HTML documents into simplified WML. The major problems of displaying data, hyperlinks, navigational aids, and frames are discussed, with a novel solution being tested and evaluated. The report concludes by contrasting the software with similar implementations and demonstrating how it could be run over a real-time client-server environment.

Building a WML Application with Enhydra
The first question that you may have is, "What is Enhydra?" Enhydra is an open source application server written entirely in Java. It supports many standards, including XML, HTML, Java Servlets, and JavaServer Pages (JSP)...

Tailoring WAP Content Using XML and XSL
With the advent of WAP, separating content and presentation is essential because of the increasing number of very different user agents.

Building Usable WAP Applications
Usability is a term that indicates the degree of user-friendliness of a system. A usable system is one that lets its users complete tasks in a reasonably easy way. Assessing the value of a system's user interface has become increasingly important with the growth of computer use.

WAP Security
Security of applications and computer systems is an issue that, quite rightly, many IT professionals are concerned about. As corporations have utilized technologies, such as remote access, Java and component technologies - the need for mechanisms to secure applications, networks and systems has become more and more important!

WAP Overview
From the start, the WAP Forum has aimed to define a standard that leverages existing Internet technologies wherever possible, and that interoperates with Internet technologies...

Learning the Lessons of WAP
This article emphasizes the differences between delivering applications to mobile devices and desktop PCs and focusses on what the developers considered when designing and building a prototype application for the WAP platform.

The Future of WAP: v1.2 and Beyond
WAP v1.2 has the same functionality as WAP v1.1, and continues the incorporation of detailed feedback from implementers. The main thrust of v1.2 has been to remove ambiguities and to make minor editorial corrections to the v1.1 specifications...

JAWAP: the Java Application Framework
Ericsson expects most WAP applications to be developed in the same way as most HTML-rendered sites are today. Because of the benefits to Ericsson of extensive WAP use, it has developed JAWAP. JAWAP is targeted at the low-end WAP developer, but may be used on almost any platform.

Creating a Dynamic WAP Application
Microsoft Active Server Pages (ASP) is a viable technology for developing dynamic web content. Its popularity can be seen from the many web sites sporting documents with the .asp extension. Because ASP is a server-side technology, it is well suited to creating dynamic WAP applications, especially in the area of database access.

WAP Subscriber Identity Modules
Every GSM phone includes within it some form of SIM, in one of two formats. These SIMs carry information about the subscriber, including the phone number, address book, and recently dialed numbers. This information is therefore easily transferred to another handset, enabling GSM users to use any compatible handset without network notification!

Building Dynamic WAP Applications with ColdFusion
Dynamically generated WML is a powerful tool, and ColdFusion is especially well suited to the task. The combination of these two can take your web sites to the next stage, adding tremendous value along the way.

ASP.NET Mobile Controls
To make coping with the various types of mobile devices easier, in particular cellular phones, ASP.NET will ship with a selection of server controls that provide output in WML rather than HTML. In this session, we look at the controls that Microsoft is currently developing

Bluetooth: A Programmer's Primer
Bluetooth is a technology specification that utilizes the 2.4 GHz Industrial, Scientific, and Medical (ISM) frequency band in order to achieve wireless connectivity among devices.

WAP for ASP Developers
This talk will give a complete overview of WAP, intended primarily for ASP developers but also catering for the merely curious. A full definition of WAP and its structure is given, along with a whistle-stop tour of WML and WMLScript. There will be a live demonstration showing some examples of WAP applications, both plain and ASP generated. At the end of the talk Karli will take a brief look into the future of WAP.

WAPReetings - A WAP Greeting card example
Mudassir demonstrates how to build a complete WAP Greeting card solution, using ASP. You choose a card, write a message, which then gets sent to your required WAP enabled device.

WAP - Part II - A Descent Through the WAP Protocol Stack.
This is the second part where James explains the basics of the WAP protocol, explaining the layers that make up WAP. This includes explanations on WML, WMLScript, WBMP, WBXML and more...

Introduction to the Wireless Application Protocol

• This is the first of series where James gives a basic overview of the fundamentals of WAP

Converting HTML to WML

This article demonstrates how to allow a WAP-phone user to be able to view any HTML page on the Internet, not just those specifically formatted in WML. This article describes how to create an IIS/ASP web site to allow WAP users to retrieve and view standard HTML pages by performing an HTML-to-WML conversion. It is built using Visual Basic 6, plus the tidy.exe utility (available from www.w3.org)