As I mentioned in the introduction, the sample application that
we will be building in this session is a Mobile Personal Assistant
(MPA). The aim of this is to allow users to have a mobile time
scheduler that enables them to check on their plans wherever they
are.
Application Overview
As can be seen from the above diagram, there are three decks
involved in this application. They are:
Ø MPA.asp
Ø DrawDates.asp
Ø Activity.asp
I will explain what these decks are for when we use them in the
following sections.
In this paper, I have assumed that the reader is familiar with
ASP. I will not attempt to explain the workings of ASP in detail.
Rather, I will explain the concepts that are important in getting
the sample application in this paper to work.
For a good tutorial on ASP, you could refer to either Beginning
Active Server Pages 3.0 or Beginning ASP Databases, both published
by Wrox Press.
In implementing this application, the technologies I'll use are
ASP and ActiveX Data Objects (ADO). Let's first take a look at the
database:
This Microsoft Access database (PIM.mdb) contains a single table
for storing the activities of the user. A typical schedule looks
like this:
WAP Browser
To develop the application, I used the Nokia WAP Toolkit 1.3.
The Nokia WAP Toolkit can be downloaded from
http://www.nokia.com/wap at no charge.
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