Database-Driven Applications

The key to building a compelling application that can be accessed from both a WAP-enabled phone and an HTML browser is synergy. Use the strengths of each environment to enhance the user experience, and tailor what you will deliver to the device. The beauty of the Web is its ability to deliver dynamic data that is constantly changing and unique to each user as appropriate. To this end, the information that you are going to present should live in a database. There are many free, and not free, database choices out there on every platform with drivers for any language that you want to use. For the sake of simplicity (and space), I have chosen one database and one language to present code in, but the underlying principles ...

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