Accessing Academic-Related Materials through WAP Protocols

Nowadays, wireless technology has been widely used in various applications. Mobile Internet users have been increasing rapidly around the world. Several benefi ts of using mobile internet includes transmitting data through querying and updating databases, e-commerce transactions and daily business application as well as in education such querying examina- tion results. This paper presents the development of a mobile database application to enable students to access the teaching materials such as lecture notes or tutorials using supported mobile phones or Personal Digital Assistant (PDA). Students could also use the system to access class information and check the course work for the enrolled class. The idea of this project is to employ Wireless Application Protocol (WAP) application in the learning process to overcome time constraint problem and it is the effective method for accessing information as mobile phones is used by most people. Wireless Markup Language (WML) is used to provide user interface at the client device while Active Server Pages (ASP) for server transaction process.

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