2. What is WAP?
Wireless Application Protocol or WAP for
short is simply a protocol - a standardized way
for delivering Internet data over wireless
networks. Thus WAP links Wireless Network
with Computer Network (World Wide Web)
and enables the mobile users to access the
internet data. In future it will serve multimedia
rich content to the cellular devices.
3. The Wireless industry came up with the idea of 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
4. WAP Architecture
The WAP Architecture
Any WAP enable system consists of :
A) WAP Gateway
B) the HTTP Web Server and
C) the WAP Device