Next Generation Wireless Applications: Creating Mobile Applications in a Web 2.0 and Mobile 2.0 World, 2nd Edition

Preface

This book is intended to give wireless practitioners a means by which to navigate and think about the increasingly complex world of next generation mobile application technologies. It is an attempt to describe and contextualise a number of prevalent and emerging paradigms for providing services on mobile devices other than the familiar calling and texting. The availability of new wireless technologies increasingly coincides with many other exciting technologies that are now within the mobile solutions toolkit, such as accurate location finding, rich client solutions, smarter devices, efficient protocols and many other micro and macro components. Possibly the most enticing aspect of these technologies is their ability to integrate into the massively connected world of the Internet, allowing new levels of service integration not envisaged at the start of the mobile data era. This is thanks to the vast array of Internet software tools, methods and services that continue to develop rapidly, even after the dot.com collapse, including the so-called Web 2.0 platform.

The rapid rise of so many anytime, anyplace possibilities is proving to be a challenge in terms of how to understand the many ideas that can be utilised when providing new and exciting services. Perhaps a programmer working on an application for a Java-capable handset is unable to grasp how best to incorporate location-finding techniques, or how to think about the security implications of their design, or how to utilise ...