Wireless Application Protocol. By Laura Lamb

Introduction
Upon the advent of the mobile data marketplace came many limitations with minimal capabilities of handheld devices and wireless networks. In order to realize the vision of providing the same information services available via Internet on wireless terminals such as digital mobile phones, new standards had to be set that could control its dynamics into a suitable format. Ericsson, Motorola, Nokia, and Unwired Planet initiated the WAP forum in 1997 in a collaborated effort to meet these demands. "Wireless application protocol (WAP) is an application environment and set of commun…