A wireless "Hello World" page

A wireless "Hello World" page

A wireless "Hello World" page
Mark Wutka

Windows developers more and more will begin to deal with wireless development. This tip, excerpted from InformIT, gives an example of a Hello page for a wireless device, and gives some hints on viewing the page in the development environment.


The following listing shows a simple "Hello World" application for a wireless device:

 

 <%@ page language="java" contentType="text/vnd.wap.wml" %> <?xml version="1.0"?> <!DOCTYPE wml PUBLIC "-//WAPFORUM//DTD WML 1.1//EN" "http://www.wapforum.org/DTD/wml_1.1.xml"> <wml> <card id="hello"> <p> Hello Wireless World! </p> </card> </wml>

The first thing you may notice in WirelessHello.jsp is that the content type is not text/html. Of course, it isn't text/wml either, which would probably make a lot more sense than text/vnd.wap.wml, but that's the way it is.

When you get past the

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This was first published in January 2001

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