WAP Development with WML and WMLScript

E-Commerce Application Overview

For this fourth and final sample application, we are going to take an in-depth look at how e-commerce might work with a WAP device. In this example, we will revisit our fictitious store, Burgerworld.com—the one stop shop for hungry computer professionals, which sells burgers, fries, and computers. (A great business model, if you ask us!)

While shopping with a mobile device may be unfamiliar to many people, the Internet has already carved out models for electronic shopping that consumers have grown accustomed to and even expect. The backbone of an e-commerce shopping experience is the virtual shopping cart. The cart we'll create in this example represents a session that you might use to track a user's login process ...