MAKING WAP COMPETE WITH WWW : An Approach To Bring Web Services To Mobile Platform With High Flexibility.

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PROJECT PROPOSAL

TITLE : MAKING WAP COMPETE WITH WWW : An Approach To Bring Web Services To Mobile Platform With High Flexibility.

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1) INTRODUCTION :

The Advancements in the field of Mobile Technologies has resulted in enabling different services that can be made available in Wireless Platform. The existing services that are available have many constraints which can be dealt with an importance in overcoming them. “A major problem facing these devices is that the web has been standardized for wired computers not wireless communication devices. Converting, maintaining, and interfacing the Web Sites and Web Applications for use with mobile devices is an important priority to allow the data and applications stored on the Internet to be available by any means, anytime and anywhere”[1].

The ability and resources that are available in existence can help us to bring some adaptable solutions to make the WAP (Wireless Application Protocol) compete with the nature of WWW (World Wide Web). These solutions can bring forward many improvements in the different services that are available in existence. The main deal in accomplishing the above goal is “how to accommodate small screens, how to make devices smarter, how to design faster input mechanisms, how to establish more reliable communications, etc. In ten years, we have quickly reached the point where we can no longer afford to consider devices in isolation, but must take into account the larger social and contextual factors surrounding mobile device use”[2].

As WAP services are launched in countries all over the world, some people are getting their first experiences of Mobile Internet. There is an incredible activity among WML developers today, and everyone wants to jump on the bandwagon. Still one can hear some HTML-developers being grumpy about abandoning their favorite markup language, and learning a new one that is extremely unforgiving to syntax errors. Others say that higher bitrate technologies, like GPRS and 3G will take away the need for WAP in the future and also the use of PHP (Hypertext Preprocessor) [3].

In this project I have decided to focus on bringing the different web services available in wired platform to the wireless platform and making it easy to access as it was in the wired platform like WWW. I have planned to use WAP as a platform to implement the application development in WAP enabled mobile devices. .NET is considered to be an opted package to develop this application.

Key Words Used :

WAP, WWW, Mobile Devices, GPRS, PHP, Web Services, Platform, etc.

2) PROJECT BACKGROUND:

The Basic idea for this project is inspired from seeing the latest trends and developments in the field of wireless technologies and how well it is effectively utilized in the industries. Now a days there is no field which do not need mobility in data and communication facilities. The future is facing towards bringing these facilities into reality. The global usage of mobile devices is increasing tremendously that needs an immediate vision on it. That gives us idea what is needed and how well it can be implemented and how feasible it would be. The background of this project is basically derived from the following factors.

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HISTORY AND DEVELOPMENT OF WAP SERVICES:

The Wireless Application Protocol is a global standard for bringing Internet content and services to mobile phones and other wireless devices. The WAP standards suite is maintained by an industry consortium called the “WAP Forum”[5]. Founded by Ericsson, Motorola, Nokia, and Openwave (then known as Unwired Planet) in June 1997, the WAP Forum now includes hundreds of member companies that are infrastructure providers, software companies, and content providers. The goal of the WAP Forum is to address the problems of wireless Internet access, ensuring that access is not limited by vendor or ...

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