WIRELESS INTERNET AND MOBILE BUSINESS HOW TO PROGRAM
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Preface
Live in fragments no longer. Only connect.
Edward Morgan Forster
We wove a web in childhood,
A web of sunny air.
Charlotte Bronte
Wow! Many of our readers will say, "I had no idea that this wireless
stuff was so significant. I have been using cell phones for years, but I
never viewed cell phones as vehicles for connecting to the Internet and
browsing the Web. Now, all of a sudden, I learn the amazing statistic
that the number of people accessing the Web through wireless devices by
2002/2003 will be larger than the number who access the Web through
desktop computers! Who could have imagined this?"
So here you are_following the explosive development of the Internet
fostered by the World Wide Web. Yes, the world got a dose of reality in
2000/2001 as the stock market lunacy of 1999-2000 discovered gravity and
fell back to Earth. For speculators_of which there were far too many in
1999-2000_this was a devastating crash. People "got hurt." But for
people following the long-term trends, it is absolutely clear that an
increasing portion of business will be done on the Web, and more of your
personal lives will become Webcentric. Young people have not seen the
ebb and flow of business cycles. Their view is shortterm. Older folks
have experienced business cycles. We see forecasts that e-business will
be $5-$6 trillion by 2004/2005; more than eighty percent of that will be
business-to-business (B2B) transactions.
This book has been a true labor of love. Although there are four authors
on the cover, probably 30 people at Deitel & Associates, Inc. made
significant contributions. We attended many trade shows to be surewe
were current with what is happening in the wireless field. Four of
us_Harvey and Abbey Deitel, Kate Steinbuhler and Matt Kowalewski_spent a
week at the CTIA (Cellular Telecommunications and Internet Association)
trade show in Las Vegas. What a wonderful educational experience for us
all_and a fun time. We visited every one of the 1000 (!) exhibitors at
the show. While we were there, though, we noticed something
unusual_there were no publishers exhibiting their books, nor was there a
book store as there normally is at a major trade show. The realization
reinforced our commitment to this book.
We see a global explosion in the so-called "wireless Internet," but we
do not see books geared to preparing computer-science students,
information technology students and professionals for the wireless Web
revolution. Wireless Internet & Mobile Business How to Program is
intended for the student or professional who sees the enormous potential
of this exploding field.
Just look at the bullets on the front cover or the Table of Contents.
There is an amazing range of topics covered in this book. Every major
technical thrust in wireless Internet programming is covered in these
pages.
1. i-mode. The Japanese i-mode system with over 24 million subscribers
is the leading wireless Internet system in the world by'a factor of
three. You will learn the history of imode and how to mark up text using
cHTML.
2. Wireless Application Protocol (WAP) dominates wireless Internet
access in the U.S. and Europe, and also is popular in Japan. You will
learn how to mark up text using the Wireless Markup Language (WML) and
how to create dynamic content on wireless clients with WMLScript.
3. Java 2 Micro Edition (J2ME). You will learn Sun's newest addition to
the Java platform that many people feel will eventually dominate in the
wireless world. You may have heard the terms "applets" and "servlets;"
you will be introduced to MIDlets-a MIDP (Mobile Information Device
Profile) application.
4. XHTML. Most programmers have developed HTML-based Web pages. However,
the W3C (World Wide Web Consortium) has declared HTML to be a legacy
technology that will undergo no further development. HTML is being
replaced by XHTML_an XML-based technology certain to become the standard
in the development of Web clients over the next few years. However,
XHTML, like HTML, is far too rich for wireless clients with their small
displays and bandwidth limitations, so the W3C has developed a concise
subset of XHTML for wireless clients_XHTML Basic. Both WAP and i-mode
are converging on XHTML Basic in impending versions, so we cover XHTML
Basic markup in Chapters 24 and 25.
But the client side is only half the picture. What about the server
side_where "heavy-duty" business logic is implemented? Active Server
Pages (ASP) is popular for implementing business logic on Microsoft Web
servers and Java dominates the world of nonMicrosoft Web servers. We
explore these powerful technologies by presenting two large, fully
implemented and carefully documented case studies. The ASP case study in
Chapter 26 prepares wireless content for i-mode (cHTML), WAP (WML and
WMLScript) and XHTML clients. The J2ME Java case study uses Java on the
server side to prepare content for i-mode, WAP, XHTML and J2ME clients.
It was reported at the June 2001 Java-One trade show that 98% of i-mode
server-side programming is done in Java_a stunning amount, given the
abundance of server-side programming technologies. Many people believe
that the wireless world will converge on Java and XML, so we have
included Appendix A, Java Programming, and Appendix H, XML.
If you are tired of tripping over wires and installing wired networks in
your offices and your homes, get ready for the Bluetooth wireless
technology revolution. Bluetooth technology can remove the wires
connecting your mouse, your printer or any other peripheral device
connections to your computer. Not only this, but you will be able to
network your office without wires, and your car_becoming ever more
electronic- and gadget-intensive_will no longer need complex wiring. You
will be able to use your cell phone to buy products from vending
machines, to check into hotels and gain access to your hotel room. The
possibilities are endless. Already 2200 companies belong to the
Bluetooth Consortium.
We present yet another leading-edge technology_BREW_the Binary Runtime
Environment for Wireless&3151;created by Qualcomm. BREW enables wireless
application developers to solve the complex problem of developing
applications that will run on disparate platforms. Developers need only
"write to" BREW which will enable disparate devices with BREW hardware
and software installed to run these applications despite the fact that
the underlying hardware and software might be quite different.
Although wireless devices have limitations, multimedia developers have
nevertheless created impressive wireless capabilities. Chapter 30,
Multimedia: Audio, Video and Speech Recognition, and Chapter 31, Flash,
detail these interactive elements.
We have all experienced the e-business revolution. Next up is the
m-business (mobile business) revolution. In addition to our coverage of
wireless technologies, we have included a dozen chapters to help you
prepare for m-business, including Introduction to mBusiness;
Location-Identification Technologies and Location-Based Services;
e-Marketing and m-Marketing; e-Payments and m-Payments; Security; Legal
and Social Issues; International Wireless Communications; two chapters
of Wireless Communications Technologies; Palm™ and Palm™ OS©; and
Microsoft CE, Pocket PC and Stinger.
The m-business topics we introduce apply many of the programming
technologies you learn in Wireless Internet and Mobile Business How to
Program. Companies are equipping their mobile workers with cell phones
and PDAs to provide their employees "anywhere, anytime" access to
business-critical information. With location-identification technologies
and location-based services, companies can track deliveries; marketers
can use the mobile communications explosion as a new and effective way
to reach mobile customers because they know where the customers are at a
given time. Location-tracking capabilities also raise the issue of
whether the applications constitute an invasion of privacy. If used in
certain arenas, it could indeed be intrusive. On the other hand,
tracking cell-phone users could save lives when accident victims cannot
communicate.
Imagine if you could use your cell phone to beam payment information
when buying merchandise at a local store. M-commerce success hinges on
whether cell phones will become widely used payment mechanisms and
whether payments can be sent and received securely. Payment and security
are discussed in Chapters 5 and 6.
The international community is the leader of wireless communications
technology and use. In a few countries, as many as three-quarters of the
people own cell phones. For some people, cell-phone calls are the first
calls they make because of the relatively high cost of wired telephone
service outside the United States. International wireless communications
is presented in Chapter 8.
Wireless communications encompasses numerous technologies that we
discuss in Chapters 9 and 10. These chapters provide you with an
understanding of the breadth of technologies used around the
world_hardware, cell-phone networks and wireless platforms_for wireless
communications.
Soon your cell phone will be your electronic address book and
calendar_as personal digital assistants (PDAs) and cell phones converge.
Chapter 11 details the Palm™ handheld and its applications and Chapter
12 details the Pocket PC handheld and the "smart phone," the so-called
"convergence device."
Well, there you have it. You are about to begin what we hope will be an
interesting, entertaining and challenging learning experience. As you
study from this book, if you have any questions, just send us an e-mail
at deitel@deitel.com and we will get back to you promptly. We sincerely
hope you enjoy learning from Wireless Internet & Mobile Business How to
Program as much as we enjoyed writing it. Our best wishes to you.
Objectives of Wireless Internet & Mobile Business How to Program
Many books about the Web are reference manuals that provide exhaustive
listings of features. That is not our style-we concentrate on creating
real applications. The live-code™ examples provided on our Web site
(http://www.deitel.com ) enable students to run the applications that we
discuss. One of the most appealing features of this text is that it
introduces a wide variety of wireless programming languages and
technologies.
We are excited about the enormous range of possibilities offered by the
wireless Internet and m-business. We performed extensive research for
this book and, in doing so, have located hundreds of Internet and Web
resources. The resources include general information sites, tutorials
and demonstrations of the technologies in this book. Many of the demos
are fun to try and can increase students' understanding of topics and
technologies.
This book is appropriate for any student or professional with a desire
to learn wireless programming. Many of the Internet and Web resources
that we include point readers to turn-key solutions (some fee-based and
some free) for the creation of m-business applications. However, readers
can use the programming technologies presented here to create these
applications themselves. Please read the tour of the book in Chapter 1,
Introducing the Internet, the Web and Wireless Communications, to
familiarize yourself with the technologies that we present.
We have worked hard to create numerous live-code™ examples to help
students master wireless Internet and Web programming quickly and
effectively. All of the code examples are available for free download
from our Web sites:
http://www.deitel.com
http://www.prenhall.com/deitel
Some Notes to Instructors
Why We Wrote Wireless Internet & Mobile Business How to Program
Today, the wireless Internet, m-business and m-commerce are experiencing
explosive growth; as technologies and applications advance from their
infant stages, the possibilities for the wireless industry seem endless.
Because wireless technologies allow businesses to reach their markets in
ways that were never before possible, professionals are eager to
incorporate m-business technology_and hire employees who understand
wireless marketing_into their organizations. College professors are
including m-business and m-commerce in their undergraduate and graduate
Internet and business curricula, and students look forward to mastering
leading-edge technologies.
Dr. Harvey M. Deitel taught introductory programming courses in
universities for 20 years with an emphasis on developing clearly
written, well-designed programs. Much of what is taught in these courses
represents the basic principles of programming, but concentrates on the
effective use of data types, control structures, arrays and
functionalization. Our experience has been that students handle the
material in this book in about the same way that they handle other
introductory and intermediate programming courses. There is one
noticeable difference, though: students are highly motivated by the fact
that they are learning technologies that will be immediately useful to
them as they enter a business world in which the Internet, the World
Wide Web and wireless communications have a massive new prominence.
Multimedia-Intensive Communications
People want to communicate. Sure, they have been communicating since the
dawn of civilization, but the potential for information exchange has
increased drastically with the evolution of various technologies. Until
recently, even computer communications have been limited mostly to
digits, alphabetic characters and special characters. The next major
wave of communication technology is multimedia. People want to transmit
color pictures, voices, audio clips and even full-motion color video
over the Internet. At some point, they will insist on three-dimensional,
moving-image transmission. Current wireless devices and bandwidth
severely limit the potential of multimedia. Small screen sizes,
black-and-white screens, slow connections and high access costs have
proved to be major impediments to graphics and video presentation on
wireless devices. However, as wireless technologies progress and the
wireless world migrates to 3G technologies, multimedia capabilities now
mostly limited to PCs will become a reality on wireless devices. Current
wireless devices, which connect to the Internet at speeds as low as
9.6Kbps, will soon be replaced by devices that connect at speeds 50
times faster_appropriate for streaming media and other enhanced
multimedia.
Focus of the Book
Our goal was clear: Produce a textbook for college-level courses in
programming and business aimed at students with little or no programming
experience, yet offer the depth and the rigorous treatment of theory and
practice demanded by professionals and students in traditional,
upper-level programming and business courses. To meet these objectives,
we produced a comprehensive book that patiently teaches the concepts of
wireless programming, as well as the principles of control structures,
object-based programming and various markup languages (WML, cHTML, XHTML
Basic and XML) and scripting languages (WMLScript). We include detailed
appendices on Java and XML_the two technologies that are certain to
dominate the future of wireless applications development. After
mastering the material in this book, students will be well prepared to
take advantage of the wireless Internet and the Web as they venture into
the rapidly changing business world.
Enabling Multimedia-Based Applications and Communications
Many books about the wireless Internet concentrate on such simple
applications for wireless devices as phone books and calendar programs.
We do that too, but, as you move towards the back of the book, you will
start to see more visually appealing applications involving i-mode and
BREW technology. Already, we are starting to see the shift to color
displays and more robust devices, which will enable a new generation of
wireless applications. Moreover, the key focus of this book is on
Web-based applications development. Our audiences want to build
real-world, industrial-strength, Web-based applications. Although these
audiences are interested in appealing WAP applications, they also care
about client/ server systems, databases and distributed computing.
Through our explanations and live-code™ examples, we help students
master a wide variety of programming and Internet tools that will
maximize their creativity and development abilities.
There have been predictions that the Internet will eventually replace
radio and television as we know them today. Similarly, it is not hard to
imagine newspapers, magazines and books delivered to "the palm of your
hand" via wireless communications. Many newspapers and magazines already
offer Web-based versions, and those same services will soon spread to
the wireless world. When cellular phones were first introduced, they
were large, cumbersome and unmanageable. Today, they are small devices
that fit in our pockets and many are equipped with Internet access.
Given the current rate of advancement, wireless technology could offer
such impressive services as video conference calls and high-power,
mufti-player video games in the coming years.
Teaching Approach
Wireless Internet & Mobile Business How to Program contains a rich
collection of examples, exercises and projects that give students the
opportunity to solve interesting real-world problems. The book
concentrates on the principles of m-business and good software
engineering, stressing program clarity. We avoid arcane terminology and
syntax specifications in favor of teaching by example. The book is
written by educators who spend most of their time writing about
revolutionary, cutting-edge programming topics_in addition to teaching
these technologies in industry classrooms worldwide. The text emphasizes
good pedagogy.
Live-Code™ Teaching Approach
Wireless Internet & Mobile Business How to Program is loaded with
numerous live-code™ examples. This style exemplifies the way we teach
and write about programming, as well as being the focus of our
multimedia Cyber Classrooms. Each new concept is presented in the
context of a complete, working example that is immediately followed by
one or more windows showing the program's input/output dialog. We call
this method of teaching and writing our live-code™ approach. We use
programming languages to teach programming languages. Reading the
examples in the text is much like entering and running them on a
computer.
This book begins by explaining cutting-edge technologies and business
models that are changing the way that e-commerce is conducted. It then
proceeds to explore the creation of m-business applications, starting
with WAP/WML and continuing on to programming with Web Clipping, i-mode,
XHTML Basic, ASP, J2ME and BREW. There is great stuff to be done in all
these languages, so let's get right to it! Wireless programming is not
trivial by any means, but it's fun, and students can see immediate
results.
World Wide Web Access
All of the examples for Wireless Internet and Mobile Business How to
Program (and our other publications) is available on the Internet as
downloads from the Web sites:
http://www.deitel.com
http://www.prenhall.com/deitel
We suggest downloading all the examples and then running each program as
you read the text. Make changes to the examples and immediately see the
effects of those changes_it's a great way to learn programming. As we
introduce new technologies in the book, we provide setup instructions
for the appropriate wireless simulators and emulators. Each set of
instructions assumes that the user is running Windows 2000 and is using
Internet Information Services (IIS). Additional setup instructions for
Web servers and other software can be found at our Web site along with
the examples. Note: You must respect the fact that this is copyrighted
material. Feel free to use it as you study, but you may not republish
any portion of it in any form without explicit permission from Prentice
Hall and the authors.
Objectives
Each chapter begins with Objectives that tell students what to expect
and give them an opportunity, after reading the chapter, to determine
whether they have met the intended goals. The objectives serve as
confidence builders and as a source of positive reinforcement.
Quotations
The chapter objectives are followed by sets of Quotations. Some are
humorous, some are philosophical and some offer interesting insights. We
have found that students enjoy relating the quotations to the chapter
material. Many of the quotations are worth a "second look" after you
read each chapter.
Outline
The chapter Outline enables students to approach the material in
top-down fashion. Along with the chapter objectives, the outline helps
students anticipate what is to come and set a comfortable and effective
learning pace.
11,026 Lines of Code in 137 Examples (with Outputs)
We present features in the context of complete, working examples and
server-side programs in ASP/VBScript and Java. Ranging from a few lines
of code to several hundred, each document is followed by the outputs
produced when the document is rendered in a simulator and its scripts
are executed. This enables students to confirm that the documents are
rendered as expected. (We use a variety of simulators, including
Openwave, Nokia and Pixo.) Reading the book carefully is much like
entering and running these examples on a computer. Students should
download all the code for the book from our Web site and should run each
program while studying that program in the text.
523 Illustrations/Figures
An abundance of charts, line drawings and program outputs is included.
Screen captures help explain concepts related to wireless technology,
such as location-identification and transmission protocols. Other images
convey the differences between wireline and wireless clients.
38 e-Facts
The e-Facts offer interesting facts and statistics on the Internet the
World Wide Web and e-business.
58 m-Facts
Similar to e-Facts, our m-Facts relate to topics covered in the text and
contain interesting facts and statistics on mobile communications and
mobile business.
282 Programming Tips
We have included programming tips to help students focus on important
aspects of program development. We highlight hundreds of these tips in
the form of Good Programming Practices, Common Programming Errors,
Testing and Debugging Tips, Performance Tips, Portability Tips, Software
Engineering Observations and Look-and-Feel Observations. These tips and
practices represent the best of the knowledge we have gleaned over
decades of programming and teaching experience. One of our students_a
mathematics major_told us that she feels this approach is like the
highlighting of axioms, theorems and corollaries in mathematics books;
it provides a foundation on which to build good software.
* 75 Good Programming Practices
Good Programming Practices are highlighted in the text. These tips
call attention to techniques that will help students produce better
programs. When we teach introductory courses to nonprogrammers, we state
that the "buzzword" of each course is "clarity, " and we tell the
students that we will highlight (in these Good Programming Practices)
techniques for writing programs that are clearer, more understandable
and more maintainable.
* Common Programming Errors
Students learning a language_especially in their first programming
course_tend to make certain kinds of errors frequently. Pointing out
these Common Programming Errors reduces the likelihood that students
will make the same mistakes. It also cuts down on long lines outside
instructors' offices during office hours!
* 29 Performance Tips
In our experience, teaching students to write clear and
understandable programs is by far the most important goal of a first
programming course. But students want to write programs that run the
fastest, use the least memory, require the smallest number of keystrokes
or dazzle in other nifty ways. Students really care about performance,
and they want to know what they can do to "turbo charge" their programs.
For the benefit of such students, we have included Performance Tips that
highlight opportunities for the improvement of program performance.
* 14 Portability Tips
Software development is a complex and expensive endeavor.
Organizations that create software often must produce versions
customized to a variety of computers and operating systems. This has
excited strong interest in portability (i.e., producing software that
will run on various computer systems with few, if any, changes).
Achieving portability requires careful and cautious design, and there
are many pitfalls. We include Portability Tips to help students write
portable code.
* 51 Software Engineering Observations
The Software Engineering Observations highlight techniques,
structural issues and design issues that affect the architecture and
construction of software systems, especially largescale systems. Much of
what the student learns here will be useful in upper-level courses and
in industry as the student begins to work with large, complex real-world
systems.
* 13 Testing and Debugging Tips
This "tip type " is somewhat misnamed. When we first decided to
incorporate Testing and @Debugging Tips, we thought that the tips would
contain suggestions for testing programs to expose bugs and suggestions
for removing those bugs. In fact, many of these tips are observations
about capabilities and features that prevent bugs from getting into
programs in the first place.
* 12 Look-and-Feel Observations
We provide Look-and-Feel Observations to highlight graphical user
interface (GUI) conventions. These observations help students design
their own graphical user interfaces to conform with industry norms.
Summary (1392 Summary bullets)
Each chapter ends with additional pedagogical devices. We present a
thorough, bullet-list-style Summary of the chapter. On average, there
are 39 summary bullets per chapter, and summaries also are included in
several of the appendices. This helps students review and reinforce key
concepts.
Terminology (2312 Terms)
We include in a Terminology section an alphabetized list of the
important terms defined in the chapter. Again, this serves as further
reinforcement. On average, there are 59 terms per chapter.
482 Self-Review Exercises and Answers (Count Includes Separate Parts)
Self-Review Exercises and Answers are included for self-study. These
questions and answers give students a chance to build confidence with
the material and prepare for the regular exercises. Students should
attempt all the self-review exercises and check their answers.
561 Exercises (Solutions in Instructor's Manual; Count Includes Separate
Parts)
Each chapter concludes with a set of exercises that involve simple
recall of important terminology and concepts, writing individual
statements, writing small portions of functions, writing complete
functions and scripts and working on larger projects. The exercises
cover a wide variety of topics, enabling instructors to tailor their
courses to the unique needs of their audiences and to vary course
assignments each semester. Instructors can use these exercises to form
homework assignments, short quizzes and major examinations. The
solutions for the vast majority of the exercises are included in the
Instructor's Manual and the Instructor's Manual CD which is available
only to instructors through their Prentice-Hall representatives.
Solutions to approximately half the exercises are included on the
Wireless Internet & Mobile Business How to Program Multimedia Cyber
Classroom CD (available in bookstores and computer stores; please see
the last few pages of this book or visit our Web site at
http://www.deitel.com for ordering instructions).
Approximately 5443 Index Entries (with approximately 7635 Page
References)
We have included an extensive Index at the back of the book. Using this
resource, students can search for any term or concept by keyword. The
terms in the terminology sections generally appear in the index (along
with many more index items from each chapter). Students can use the
index, in conjunction with the terminology sections to ensure that they
have covered the key material in each chapter.
"Double Indexing" of All Live-CodeTM Examples and Exercises
Wireless Internet & Mobile Business How to Program has 137 live-code™
examples and 561 exercises (including parts). We have "double indexed"
each of the live-code™ examples. For every source-code program in the
book, we took the figure caption and indexed it both alphabetically and
as a subindex item under "Examples." This makes it easier to find
examples that use particular features.
Ancillary Package for Wireless Internet & Mobile Business How to Program
NOTE: Please do not write to us requesting the instructor's manual.
Distribution of this publication is strictly limited to college
professors teaching from the book. Instructors may obtain the solutions
manual only from their regular Prentice Hall representatives. We regret
that we cannot provide the solutions to professionals. Wireless Internet
& Mobile Business How to Program has extensive ancillary materials
available to instructors teaching from the book. The Instructor's Manual
CD contains solutions to the vast majority of the end-of-chapter
exercises. In addition, we provide PowerPoint© slides containing all the
code and figures in the text. You are free to customize these slides to
meet your own classroom needs. Prentice Hall provides a Companion Web
Site (http://www.prenhall.com/deitel) that includes resources for
instructors and students. For instructors, the Web site has a Syllabus
Manager for course planning, links to the PowerPoint slides and
reference materials from the appendices of the book (such as the
operator precedence chart, character sets and Web resources). For
students, the Web site provides chapter objectives, true/false
self-review exercises and answers, chapter highlights and reference
materials.
Wireless Internet & Mobile Business Programming Multimedia Cyber
Classroom and The Complete Wireless Internet and Mobile Business
Programming Training Course
We have prepared an optional interactive, CD-ROM-based, software version
of Wireless Internet & Mobile Business How to Program called the
Wireless Internet and Mobile Business Programming Multimedia Cyber
Classroom. This resource is loaded with features that are ideal for
learning and reference. The Cyber Classroom is wrapped with the textbook
at a discount in The Complete Wireless Internet & Mobile Business
Programming Training Course. If you already have the book and would like
to purchase the Wireless Internet & Mobile Business Programming
Multimedia Cyber Classroom separately, please call 1-800811-0912 and ask
for ISBN# 0-13-062337-7.
The CD has an introduction with the authors overviewing the Cyber
Classroom's features. The 137 live-code™ example Web documents and
server-side programs in the textbook truly "come alive" in the Cyber
Classroom. If you want to modify a document and examine the effects of
your changes, simply click the floppy-disk icon that causes the source
code to be "lifted off' the CD and "dropped into" one of your own
directories so that you can edit the document and try out your new
version. Click the speaker icon for an audio that talks about the
document and "walks you through" the code.
The Cyber Classroom also provides navigational aids, including extensive
hyperlinking. The Cyber Classroom remembers in a "history fist" recent
sections that you have visited and allows you to move forward or
backward in that history list. The thousands of index entries are
hyperlinked to their text occurrences. Furthermore, when you key in a
term using the "find" feature, the Cyber Classroom will locate
occurrences of that term throughout the text. The Table of Contents
entries are "hot," so clicking a chapter name takes you to that chapter.
Students like the dozens of solved problems from the textbook that are
included with the Cyber Classroom. Studying and running these extra
examples is a nice way for students to enhance their learning
experience.
Students and professional users of our Cyber Classrooms tell us that
they like the interactivity and that the Cyber Classroom is an effective
reference because of its extensive hyperlinking and other navigational
features. We recently received an e-mail from a person who said that he
lives "in the boonies" and cannot take a live course at a university, so
the Cyber Classroom provided an ideal solution to his educational needs.
Professors tell us that their students enjoy using the Cyber Classroom,
spend more time on the course and master more of the material than in
textbook-only courses. In addition, the Cyber Classroom helps shrink
lines outside professors' offices during office hours. We have also
published The C++ Multimedia Cyber Classroom (3/e), the Visual Basic 6
Multimedia Cyber Classroom, the Java 2 Multimedia Cyber Classroom 4/e,
the Internet and World Wide Web Programming Multimedia Cyber Classroom,
2/e, the XML Multimedia Cyber Classroom, the Perl Multimedia Cyber
Classroom and will soon publish the Advanced Java Multimedia Cyber
Classroom, the Python Multimedia Cyber Classroom and many more.
Table of Contents
Preface
1 Introducing the Internet, the Web and Wireless Communications 1
2 m-Business 26
3 Location-Identification Technologies and Location-Based Services 56
4 e-Marketing and m-Marketing 80
5 e-Payments and m-Payments 135
6 Security 174
7 Legal and Social Issues; Web Accessibility 225
8 International Wireless Communications 277
9 Wireless Communications Technologies: Part 1 313
10 Wireless Communications Technologies: Part 2 343
11 Palm and Palm OS 373
12 Microsoft Windows CE, Pocket PC and Stinger 405
13 Wireless Markup Language (WML): Part 1 446
14 Wireless Markup Language (WML): Part 2 472
15 WMLScript: Introduction to Scripting 492
16 WMLScript: Functions 516
17 WMLScript: Control Structures 1 540
18 WMLScript: Control Structures 2 578
19 WMLScript: Objects 615
20 WMLScript: Strings and Characters 646
21 Web Clipping 669
22 i-mode 693
23 Bluetooth Wireless Technology 718
24 Introduction to XHTML Basic: Part 1 750
25 Introduction to XHTML Basic: Part 2 767
26 Case Study: Wireless Applications Development with ASP 785
27 Java-Based Wireless Applications Development and J2ME 844
28 Microsoft .NET Mobile Internet Toolkit 920
29 Binary Runtime Environment for Wireless (BREW) 964
30 Multimedia: Audio, Video and Speech Recognition 1014
31 Macromedia Flash 1043
A Introduction to Java 2 Programming 1079
B Career Opportunities 1181
C ASCII Character Set 1205
D Special Characters and the Web 1206
E Unicode 1207
F Number Systems 1219
G Colors and the Web 1232
H Extensible Markup Language (XML) 1235
Bibliography 1282
Index 1285
Auteur : DEITEL
Editeur : PRENTICE HALL
Nombre de pages : 1328
Date de publication : 06 2002
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