WAP

Wireless Application Protocol

WAP

(1) (Wireless Access Point) See access point.

(2) (Wired Access Point) See wired access point.

(3) (Wireless Application Protocol) A standard for providing cellphones, pagers and other handhelds with secure access to email and text-based Web pages. Introduced in 1997 by Phone.com, Ericsson, Motorola and Nokia, WAP provides an environment for wireless applications that includes a wireless version of TCP/IP and a framework for telephony integration such as call control and phone book access. Supporting keypad and voice recognition, WAP is independent of the air interface and runs over all major wireless networks. It is also device independent and can be used in any mobile device.

WML, WMLScript and XHTML
WAP introduced the Wireless Markup Language (WML), a streamlined version of HTML, and WMLScript, a compact form of JavaScript that runs in limited memory. WML later evolved into mobile versions of XHTML, which, along with all WAP protocols, are governed by the Open Mobile Alliance, the successor to the WAP Forum (see OMA).

WAP and SMS = MMS
The multimedia messaging system (MMS) uses both the SMS text messaging and WAP protocols to transmit graphics, audio and video to cellphones (see MMS). See WTLS, XHTML, HDML, Openwave and i-mode.

No Information Overload Here

These are examples of the earlier, and very small, cellphone screens that were available when WAP was first deployed. (Image courtesy of Openwave Systems Inc.)

A WAP Gateway

This diagram depicts Openwave's Mobile Access Gateway which encodes and decodes WAP pages between the microbrowser in the smartphone and the Web server.

WAP

Acronym	Definition
WAP➣Wireless Application Protocol
WAP➣Wireless Access Protocol
WAP➣Wireless Access Point
WAP➣Weatherization Assistance Program
WAP➣Web Application Proxy (software; Microsoft)
WAP➣Wild Animal Park
WAP➣Washington Apple Pi
WAP➣Working Age Population (category)
WAP➣Web Application Projects (Microsoft Visual Studio 2005 add-in)
WAP➣Word Addressable Processor
WAP➣War and Peace (Tolstoy novel)
WAP➣Whey Acidic Protein
WAP➣Wildlife Action Plan (various locations)
WAP➣World Agricultural Production (USDA)
WAP➣Wolfgang Amadeus Phoenix (Phoenix album)
WAP➣weak anthropic principle
WAP➣Weighted Average Price
WAP➣Waste Analysis Plan (WIPP)
WAP➣Wavelength Assignment Problem
WAP➣Water Allocation Planning (various organizations)
WAP➣Web Access Project (National Center for Accessible Media)
WAP➣Watershed Agricultural Program (New York)
WAP➣Workforce Action Plan (various locations)
WAP➣Wired Access Point (Metrocom)
WAP➣Wait and Pay
WAP➣Windows Academic Program (Microsoft)
WAP➣Web Affiliate Program
WAP➣Wide Area Paging
WAP➣Wandering Atrial Pacemaker
WAP➣Wissenschaftliche ArbeitsPlatzrechner
WAP➣Watershed Assessment Procedure (forestry industry)
WAP➣World Accredited Practitioner (World Certification Institute)
WAP➣Waste Acceptance Process
WAP➣Work Assignment Procedure
WAP➣What A Plonker
WAP➣Waste Acceptance Product
WAP➣Wale Adenuga Productions (Nigeria)
WAP➣Weapon Appraisal Process
WAP➣Weapon Alternative Processor
WAP➣Worldwide Analytical Processing
WAP➣Workers' Assistance Programme
WAP➣Warning Annunciator Panel
WAP➣Work-Around Procedures

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