WAP Development with WML and WMLScript

Summary

E-commerce is a highly practical and exciting application for mobile users. For this fourth and final sample application, we showed you a complex example of how an e-commerce application might work using JSP and WAP. We showed you what kinds of data we needed to store in the data source, and how the set of tables we created were used throughout the application.

Next, we showed you how to keep track of the user's shopping session with a specific User ID that was passed throughout the application. Once that was established, we dynamically generated categories and product lists, so that the application would be scalable and able to adapt to changing products and additional categories. To keep track of the users'selections, we created a familiar ...