the buzz at javaone 2000, in my opinion, was definitely the solidification of java in the wireless market. as radio host for sys-con radio at javaone, i had the pleasure of interviewing ceos and ctos of leading application server vendors. many of them focused, not on j2ee support, but on how their products are providing wireless solutions.
wireless access to ejbs is becoming a reality due to support for wml in numerous application servers. beas weblogic server and lutriss enhydra are two of the players already shifting attention to wireless enhancements to their products, building on the core j2ee services that offer reliability, scalability and transaction support to wireless business solutions.
this month in ejb home ill cover some basic concepts of wireless development and describe why i think using a wap-enabled application server over the j2ee platform is a winning hand.
wireless application development
what is wap? good question. lets discuss wireless concepts and common terminology, then apply it to j2ee application servers to understand the importance of ejb and the rest of the j2ee apis in wireless development.
wap - wireless application protocol - is a set of protocols designed to allow the development of web-based applications for mobile devices such as phones and handheld computers. wap was developed by a group of industry giants including motorola, ericsson and nokia in a fashion similar to the way sun requests representatives from industry leaders to help develop new java specifications. the wap forum, as they... 下一页