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Degree Name

MS (Master of Science)

Program

Computer and Information Science

Date of Award

12-2001

Committee Chair or Co-Chairs

Gordon L. Bailes Jr.

Committee Members

John D. Chenoweth, Neil A. Thomas

Abstract

Wireless Application Protocol (WAP) is the current de-facto standard for communication used by the world wide web (WWW) for wireless devices. WAP application development consists of software development in the Wireless Markup Language (WML) and the WML scripting language. The WAP development programming model is similar to the WWW programming model. However, there are a few design considerations that a developer has to keep in mind such as small display size, limited bandwidth, different session management techniques, and security aspects.

Generation of dynamic content for WAP devices can be done in a variety of server side languages. C# and Java are two of those languages. Numerical computations and database access performance are important in WAP development. C# and Java have been compared in the context of several performance aspects, event handling programming models using delegates and inner classes, security models, and rapid application development facilities.

Document Type

Thesis - restricted

Copyright

Copyright by the authors.

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