Essential JSP for Web Professionals
Micah Brown, Dan Livingston, Chris Bellew · Medical Entomology and Zoology · 2001
From the Book: PREFACE: Foreword Imagine that one of the foremost computer-science theoreticians, Don Knuth, and one of the most practical solution architects, Jim McConnell, co-authored a book on wireless technology, and you now have a good view on what to expect from Essential WAP for Web Professionals by Damon Hougland and Khurram Zafar. While the industry trade publications are replete with sensational but often vacuous information about wireless, and the scientific publications cover the technology in arcane detail, the only other source for good credible information on WAP (wireless application protocol) is voluminous standards documents. What the industry seems to lack is a practical definition of WAP technology. Essential WAP... addresses this important void and serves up a very important body of practical knowledge. Damon and Khurram are my colleagues at eFORCE. They work as a technical leadership team, helping Global 2000 organizations refine their strategic goals, and define practical solutions that meet their time to market goals, technology and budget constraints. Unlike other books in this area, Essential WAP for Web Professionals is based on years of practical experience coupled with a solid theoretical knowledge an unparalleled combination that makes this book unique. However, this book is not about eFORCE or skewed toward any particular vendor's WAP implementation, making it very unbiased and the only book of that nature that I know. Essential WAP for Web Professionals covers all the basic concepts involved in WAP and has a repertoire of practical application examples. If you are a hands-on developer, I canpersonallyguarantee these examples will provide the most effective means to battle the learning curve in WAP technologies. Others will gain a practical insight into the nuances about wireless architectures and unique aspects involved in developing wireless solutions. I promise that no one will ever accuse Damon or Khurram of taking an academic approach. This book comes from The School of Hard Knocks. Damon and Khurram are two of the sharpest minds out there, combining the theoretical abstractions and practical rigors needed to deliver critical business solutions. While this is important to any enterprise computing solution, this blend is especially imperative with newer technologies, like Wireless. WAP technologies, standards and applications will continue to evolve at a very fast pace. With this evolution, WAP as a standard will morph and transform, and in a couple of years the standard will look very different from the way it looks today. However, the core concepts and approaches outlined in this book will remain a solid foundation for practitioners and the way they approach wireless solution deployments. I hope you enjoy it as much as I did. Nat D. Natraj, CEO eFORCE