WAP- Mobile Device Applications (Using WML with server side languages)

What is WAP?

	WAP stands for Wireless Application Protocol
	WAP is an application communication protocol
	WAP is used to access services and information
	WAP is inherited from Internet standards
	WAP is for handheld devices such as mobile phones
	WAP is a protocol designed for micro browsers
	WAP enables the creating of web applications for mobile devices.
	WAP uses the mark-up language WML (not HTML)
	WML is defined as an XML 1.0 application

The Wireless Application Protocol

The WAP protocol is the leading standard for information services on wireless terminals like digital mobile phones. WML is the language used to create pages to be displayed in a WAP browser.

The WAP standard is based on Internet standards (HTML, XML and TCP/IP). It consists of a WML language specification, a WMLScript specification, and a Wireless Telephony Application Interface (WTAI) specification.

WML stands for Wireless Markup Language. It is a mark-up language inherited from HTML, but WML is based on XML, so it is much stricter than HTML.

We at Evolve use WML to create pages that can be displayed in a WAP browser. Pages in WML are called DECKS. Decks are constructed as a set of CARDS, related to each other with links. When a WML page is accessed from a mobile phone, all the cards in the page are downloaded from the WAP server. Navigation between the cards is done by the phone computer - inside the phone - without any extra access trips to the server. We also use combination of WML, php, mysql or WML, asp, Access or any supported database to make your mobile version of website 100% feature rich.

AWSS, momail, wapchat, Wapcomail lite , wap portal server are popular readymade scripts available and we can do modification to that script to develop customized WAP applications.