Wireless Applications
This section briefly describes the types of applications and application services that are commonly available in wireless Internet portals. We won't discuss the design of these services here because they can involve complex architectures that require Web servers, application servers, and other system-level components. Instead, the purpose of this section is to give an introductory conceptual description of the wireless application environment and to help developers begin to think about how to design applications for this environment.
Notice that Figure 11.2 doesn't present a view that is granular enough to show the systems inside the carrier intranet that provide individual software services. The reason is that the component ...
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