Retrieving Information from a WAP Application
Now that you’ve created a means for your application to connect to and identify with your database, let’s focus our attention on creating the functionality to access data from the database.
Because accessing data from a device requires greater amounts of memory and processing, you should design your WAP applications to retrieve information using server-side technology. Thus, in the examples in this chapter, you’ll create an ASP page that processes the data of your database and then sends the results back to the WAP device (in a WML format).
To process data from an ASP page, you’ll use a combination of ASP and server components. The server components you’ll use are known as ActiveX Data Objects, better ...
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