Ensuring Security in WAP and Usability in WAP Applications

Keeping pace with the growing communication need of modern life today’s technology also is focusing towards pervasive computing and ubiquitous computing. Computing devices are becoming smaller and multi-purpose wireless devices like palm-top PCs, PDAs, mobile phones are becoming more popular. Access to the World Wide Web from such devices is usually done through Wireless Application Protocol (WAP). There is a set of concerns over how secure and usable WAP is as a technology, and whether it is robust enough to implement mobile commerce applications, and other applications with stringent security requirements. In this paper we have performed a review of WAP applications and investigated out the facilities and the technologies that WAP has to offer for building and deploying secure and usable WAP applications.