Question : WAP server enabled for IP or ethernet simulation.

Hello guys,

I am developing a WAP stack as my final year project. I am currently doing feasibility study of the project.

The place where I am developing it does not have an actual wireless environment.
So, I can not test and display my project on an actual mobile network.I will have to do it on an IP or Ethernet simulation. Please tell me how can I do that? Is this project feasible if four guys work for 6 months? Please also tell me about a good forum for WAP
(Of course not WAPforum) where I can clear my doubts.

Answer : WAP server enabled for IP or ethernet simulation.

Yes, I think you can do this. The prerequisite is that the four of you are good programmers and understand network programming, ip protocols, etc.

The transport protocol used in the WAP stack is WTP, and it runs over IP. There are a few different components:

a) protocol handling
b) proxying (making http requests)
c) compiling wml and wmlscript
d) security (wtls)

The first three are fairly straightforward (provided you know how to write a compiler etc.). A senior engineer should be able to build this in a month or two. Sounds about right for 4 students to spend 6 months on it. I recommend doing it in Java and also skip the wtls implementation.

In order to test, you will need a client that can make wtp requests. I think most of them actually support that. The Ericsson 380 emulator does for sure. I'm pretty sure phone.com does too. Another option is to build one yourself. I recommend either building one yourself or choosing one reference emulator.

The yospace emulator mentioned above will not work. It's just a display client connecting into yospace's wap gateway emulating servlet. It's emulating a wap gateway because it doesn't use wtp to the client. So it will never hook into your gateway - it goes directly to the wml source using http.