Building PDA Databases For Wireless And Mobile Development

Learn how to build databases on personal digital devices to be used with PDA applications. The first book ever to cover mobile database development.

• Introduces the mobile databases (their architecture and features) and how they operate and handle the essential task of synchronization.
• Explains how the enterprise work force can move to a handheld device and still have easy access to corporate databases.
• Web site contains all source code for working examples of applications showing mobile databases in use.
• Foreword and endorsement by Bill Inmon, the "Father of Data Warehousing."

·Chapter 1, "Introduction to PDAs," is a basic introduction to the mobile wireless environment. It includes some basics, a quick view of WAP technology (the topic of our first book, WAP Integration, which is really Internet on cellular telephones), and an overview of PDAs and their environments.
·Chapter 2, "Database Architecture," discusses databases in general. It begins at zero and brings the reader step by step into what is a database.
·Chapter 3, "Client−Server Architecture," is an introduction to client−server methodology. This chapter describes what client−server is and how it applies to PDAs.
·Chapter 4, "Data Warehousing," deals with an advanced database topic called data warehousing. Many enterprises are very interested in centralizing their departmental information for everyone in the organization to accessthis is data warehousing. We believe the accessing of this information will be very valuable to mobile employees, and therefore discuss some basic issues when applied to the PDA environment.
·Chapter 5, "Palm," brings the reader up to par on Palm devices. We present a very good overview of Palm as a whole, and of the products and operating system.
·Chapter 6, "Pocket PC," brings the reader up to par on Pocket PC from Microsoft. This chapter is a definite must if you are not familiar with devices using this technology.
·Chapter 7, "Mobile Application Development Tools," describes a handful of mobile application development tools. If you plan to access data on a PDA, you're probably thinking of building an application, and this chapter discusses several tools for this process.
·Chapter 8, "Palm's Database," discusses Palm's offering and how databases are deployed on Palm OS devices. Our example explains how to create an application to access data from the PDB database.
·Chapter 9, "Microsoft," introduces the Pocket PC offerings from Microsoft. This is a detailed chapter on the many aspects with an interesting application explained in detail.
·Chapter 10, "Sybase," introduces the Sybase solution to PDA databases. Again, this chapter discusses the components from Sybase, and has examples using specific pieces of the offering.
·Chapter 11, "IBM," introduces IBM's DB2 solution. A discussion on the components and an easy to follow application using the components follows.
· For your reference, we have a list of acronyms and appendices describing certain fine points from areas in the book.
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