Preface

This guide discusses how you can use OracleAS Wireless to develop and deliver mobile services to any mobile device.

Intended Audience

This Guide is designed to drive developers quickly through major technology and product features, and to assist in evaluation of this product for development groups.

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Structure

This Guide includes the following sections:

Chapter 1, "Introduction to Oracle Application Server Wireless": Overview of OracleAS Wireless

Chapter 2, "Introducing Oracle Application Server Wireless Developer's Tools": Introduction to building applications using OracleAS Wireless

Chapter 3, "JDeveloper Wireless Extension": Information about using and extending JDeveloper

Chapter 8, "OracleAS Wireless Developer Kit": Developing and testing OracleAS Wireless applications without the full installation of OracleAS

Chapter 4, "Developing Services": Using Service Manager to create and manage the service-related objects of the Oracle Application Server Wireless repository

Chapter 5, "Mobile Studio": An online, hosted environment for developing, testing and deploying applications for the OracleAS Wireless platform

Chapter 6, "Wireless Customization Portal": Directions on customizing portals from a browser

Chapter 7, "Authoring Mobile Browser and Voice Applications": Device-independent authoring using XHTML, XHTML MP and XFORMS

Chapter 9, "Using Multi-Channel Server": Developing Multichannel applications

Chapter 10, "Creating Messaging Applications": Applications for sending and receiving message to/from mobile users

Chapter 11, "Notification Engine": Notifications and data feeds matching interested users with relevant content

Chapter 12, "J2ME Development and Provisioning": Developing J2ME applications to access enterprise back-end applications

Chapter 13, "Oracle Sensor Edge Server": New middle tier component of OracleAS Wireless that integrates remote sensors with your applications

Chapter 14, "Web Scraping": Reformatting device/markup language for use on any web-enabled device

Chapter 15, "Using Location Services": Specialized services for developing location-based applications

Chapter 16, "Enabling User Customization": Adapting applications to increase application efficiency

Chapter 17, "Billing": OracleAS Wireless Billing Integration Framework provides an extensible and flexible framework to model billable services, capture billable actions, and integrate with any billing engine.

Related Documents

Here is a partial list of related documents that will provide you with important information concerning OracleAS Wireless and related products/components:

• OracleAS Wireless Administrator's Guide—all the information you need to be up and running in the shortest possible time.

• OracleAS Wireless Release Notes—final notes about the products, since the Documentation and Help were produced.

• OracleAS Wireless online Help (included in the product)

• Oracle Application Server Wireless API documentation with sample code included in product directory structure

• OracleAS documentation (HTML and PDF library)

• Oracle Technology Network

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