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June 16, 2000

Development Tools for WAP/ASP

Question: Which development tools currently are available for WML editing? Are any made specifically for ASP/WML? Answer: Personally I use Microsoft’s Visual InterDev for all my Web development, simply out

WTAI and WMLScript

Question: Can I use WTAI function calls to write and then read back numbers in the handset phonebook? Answer: The WMLScript to do this is: addPBEntry(number, name); This will add

JSP/WAP

Question: Does JSP support WAP? Answer: As long as you set your content type properly, any of the scripting languages can generate WML, which can be displayed on WAP-enabled devices.

WAP Configuration

Question: I have a Nokia WAP server 1.1 and toolkit 1.2. When I try to look into a WML page using Wapman, it gives a 406 error. What do I

Stopping Services for Backup

Question: As backup for a client, can I write a script in Exchange to shut down the service, copy all the data files to another drive, and then restart the

E-mail Forwarding With Exchange 5.5

Question: How does a person in my office forward certain e-mails from his account in the office to his external e-mail account? Answer: Sounds to me like Auto-Replies to the

Memory Layout of Objects

Question: If a program constructs an object (let’s say, foo) that has a number of large and involved methods 100 times, does it duplicate in memory all the code for

Software to Convert Informix dat to dbf

Question: Is there any software that will convert database files from Informix to dbf files? Answer: I’m not aware of any. Sort of like rebuilding a Ferrari and putting in

Asynchronous Calls and Callbacks

There are two ways to invoke a remote object through Remote Scripting: synchronously and asynchronously. The asynchronous approach is particularly useful because it doesn’t stop the user from working within