Sung Ik Son

IBM's WebSphere Portal currently supports mobile devices by generating portal pages in three markup languages: HTML for desktop computers and some PDAs, WML for WAP devices, and cHTML for devices in the NTT DoCoMo i-mode network. This article focuses on portlet development for WAP devices, including a brief introduction to WAP and WML, and discusses various WAP emulators for portlet testing. The article's source code is not necessarily driven by best practices or performance considerations. WAP and WML WAP (Wireless Application Protocol) is a communication protocol designed for wireless devices just as HTTP is for desktop Web browsers. WML (Wireless Markup Language) is a markup language for wireless device microbrowsers as HTML is for browsers on desktop computers. WML content is read and interpreted by a microbrowser built into the WAP device. WML is similar to HT... (more)