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WAP for Developers

Standard is a good thing

While the WAP-technology will provide a lot of nice things for the end user it also greatly simplifies the developers work. The WAP-protocol was designed by the leading companies of the mobil industry. It is however an open world standard. This means that no single company or group of companies own the protocol and instead everyone is free to read and make use of the specifications. The protocol is based on open internet standards such as IP and XML, which are familiar to most developers.

Who is using this WAP thing?

The protocol was just finished and we have very few working WAP devices on the market. Still the industry is adopting it suprisingly fast. Over 90% of the worlds handset manufacturers across all tecnologies have already committed to WAP. By the year 2000 WAP will be supported by network operators representing over 100 million subscribers. This gives WAP a very promising future.

New technology again

The hard work has already been done. The protocols and standards are defined and ready to be used. Developers familiar with the Internet and developing webapplications will quickly adobt to the new standard. They will be able to differentiate existing products, or create new once based on the new opportunities. This will give the ability to broaden the customer base to include the wireless industry with new partnerns and alliances.

Write once, run everywhere

Most programmers are familiar with the primary goals of the java language. Write once run everywhere. The WAP protocol was designed with the same goals in mind. The protocol is independent of the underlaying airlink standard and also device independent. Application developers can write a single application that will run on all carrier networks, all transport protocols, and all wireless devices.

No need to start from scratch

Tool developers are also quickly extending their existing tools to take advantage of new opportunities arising in the wireless marketplace. This has in a short time made the amount of tools available for WAP development significant.


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