Mobile Application Development with SMS and the SIM Toolkit:

Mobile Application Development Using SMS and the SIM Toolkit is just the guide you’ve been looking for if you’re building applications for GSM or 3G networks, wish you had sample code for reality-based applications, or want to add mobile extensions to your software products and corporate network. In this straight-talking tutorial, smart card expert Scott Guthery teams with information management specialist Mary Cronin to provide you with authoritative guidance on SIM application design, integration, and management for any platform. Seasoned developers will quickly learn how to:

• Create code that harnesses the power of the SIM
• Use the micro-browsers and micro-Web servers in 3G phones
• Construct leading-edge mobile commerce applications on today's network
• Send and receive SMS messages from your server or your laptop
• Enable interfaces and other needed components
• Create secure wireless applications for corporate networks and VPNs

Ajax:

The Complete Reference explains how to create and test Ajax-enabled Web applications using the XMLHttpRequest object as well as alternative JavaScript-based communication mechanisms. You'll explore a variety of sample applications featuring emerging user-interface conventions and build applications that address real-world networking and security issues. A robust communication library is developed throughout the book that enables you to architect flexible Ajax applications. The latest technologies such as Web services, Flash-Ajax integration, client-side templates, Comet, and Offline Access are also covered. Discover the future of Web development today!

• Work with traditional JavaScript communication approaches like iframes
  
• Explore all the quirks and details in the XMLHttpRequest object
  
• Handle disparate data formats, including XML, JSON, CSV, YAML, and more
  
• Deal with networking issues, including timeouts, retries, response ordering, and a variety of server and content errors
  
• Simplify JavaScript programming using open-source Ajax libraries like YUI
  
• Secure Ajax applications using authentication, obfuscation, and encryption
  
• Implement common Ajax UI patterns such as auto suggest, click-to-edit, and drag-and-drop
  
• Solve troubling Ajax architecture problems, including back button, history, and bookmarking issues
  
• Learn Ajax's role in Web 2.0 and Web services
  
• Explore push style communication using Comet and Flash
  
• Discover the future of offline Web application access and operation

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