 Learn
how to build databases on personal digital devices to be used
with PDA applications. Several years ago, the business
community accepted the Internet as a viable solution to
extending the corporate environment. Today, there is another
movement towards enhancing this methodology–– empowering
mobile wireless business users with increasingly powerful PDAs.
Robert Laberge and Srdjan Vujosevic have written the first book
ever to cover mobile database development. They discuss the many
methods of connecting to the Internet, Intranet, or a specific
computer and how they are all viable business solutions for
today’s large, medium, and small corporations.
In addition, they offer detailed discussions of such topics as:
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Basics
of the mobile wireless environment, including a quick view of
WAP technology and an overview of PDAs and their environments
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The
client-server methodology–what it is and how it applies to
PDAs
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Data warehousing–centralizing departmental information
for everyone in an organization to access
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Palm as a whole, in
addition to Pocket PC from Microsoft Tools needed for building
an application to access data on a PDA
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The Sybase solution to
PDA databases–the components from Sybase, and an example using
specific pieces of the offering IBM’s DB2 solution–a
discussion on the components, and an easy-to-follow application
using the components
The companion Web site contains all the source code for the
sample applications in the book.
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Paperback:
320 pages ; Dimensions (in inches): 0.74 x 8.70 x 8.02
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Publisher:
John Wiley & Sons; 1 edition (October 11, 2002)
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ISBN:
0471216453
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