Wireless Application Development with Java

This course will be offered in downtown Vancouver. If you are interested in registering for this course, please send an email to info@javacourses.com. We also offer on-site training.

Overview

Most Internet technologies are designed for desktop and large computers running on reliable networks with relatively high bandwidth. Hand-held wireless devices, on the other hand, have a more constrained computing environment. They tend to have less memory, less powerful CPUs, different input devices, and smaller displays. The Wireless Application Protocol (or WAP), which is a specification developed by the WAP Forum, takes advantage of the several data-handling approaches already in use. Developing wireless applications using WAP technologies is similar to developing web pages with a markup language because it is browser based. Another approach to developing wireless applications is to use the Mobile Information Device Profile (MIDP).

With either WAP or MIDP, the Java programming language plays an important role. In WAP, Java Servlets and Java Server Pages (JSPs) can be used to generate Wireless Markup Language (WML) pages dynamically, and in MIDP, applications (also called MIDlets) are written in Java.

This course is designed for people who want to understand the different technologies that can be used to develop wireless applications for hand-held devices, and more importantly how to efficiently use them.

Who Should Attend

This course is for developers, analysts and designers, engineers, and managers interested in writing software for hand-held devices.

Features

• Gives an overview of the Handheld Device Markup Language (HDML), Compact HTML (cHTML), and the Wireless Application Protocol (WAP).
• Discusses why WAP needs Java and how Java can be used to develop WAP applications
• Examines the Java 2 Micro Edition (J2ME)
• Examines the Kilo Virtual Machine (KVM) and compares it with the J2SE JVM
• Shows how to develop wireless applications with MIDP.
• Discusses the KVM support for Palm Programming with Java
• Examines the Security Issues
• Gives pointers to Useful Resources

Benefits

This course is hands-on, so through excercises conducted under the supervision of the instructor, you will:

• Learn how to work with the KVM to support small and resource constrained devices.
• Develop Java applications for handheld devices with the J2ME.
• Gain hands-on experience.

Outline of Topics

• WAP Overview
  • WML
  • WMLScript
• J2ME Overview
  • J2ME Architecture
  • CLDC and MIDP
• K Virtual Machine
  • KVM vs. J2SE JVM
  • What APIs are inherited from J2SE
• Developing MIDP Applications
  • MIDlets development life cycle
  • developing MIDlets
  • Testing and deploying MIDlet suites
• GUI programming for Handheld Devices
  • User Interface design for handheld device
  • MIDP user interface design principles
• Accessing Network Resources
  • The CLDC Generic Connection Framework
  • Network Programming
  • MIDP inter-communication with CGI and Servlets
• Working with Databases
  • Database Programming
  • Accessing remote databases
• Others
  • Security Issues
  • Usefule Resources

For more info, please email: info@javacourses.com