optiPoint application module WAP applications overview

Example of a weather forecast on the optiPoint application module

Scope

The module has in built-in WAP browser. WAP technology is driven by mobile phone internet access. Although it has in mobile world a negative image (because og small screens and high mobile internet rates), the technolgy itself is proven. Major advantage compared to standard HTML: WML offers smaller footprint, drops each kind of pop-up's, advertsimets, etc and concentrates really on providing the information itself.
There are many many WAP/WML content providers available in the interent. Most of them ar free and all can be accessed by the optiPoint application module

Documentation

•   WML developers Guide 
•   WML developers Guide-en 
•   WAP configuration-de 
•   WAP configuration-en 

Ressources

• Summary of useful WAP services

•   Sample code XML-objects

How To's

• How to use WAP applications
• How to access a public internet based WAP-link portal
• How to program WML applications for the WAP browser

Related links / information

Wireless access protocol / Wirelss Markup Language

•  [1] WAP - Forum
•   [2] WML - Einführung
•   [3] W3C school : WAP - Tutorial

Development tools

•   [4] WML - Editor
•   [5] WAP - Developer community
•   [6] WBMP - converter

Webserver

•   http://httpd.apache.org/ - Apache Webserver opnesource project
•   http://de.selfhtml.org/servercgi/server/index.htm - Einrichtehinweise Webserver
•   [7] - Einrichtehinweise Apache Webserver
•   [8] Open Source WAP Gateway project