Contains 10 papers from a February 2000 workshop report on the latest advances in middleware for mobile business applications and e-commerce. Specific subjects include transaction processing in a mobile computing environment with alternating client hosts, enterprise data access from mobile computers, exploiting planned disconnections in mobile environments, integrating periodic data sequences based on freshness and synchronousness, and compressibility of WMLScript byte code. Lacks a subject index."

Design and applications, media analysis, design and implementation, media servers, resource management and query processing are topics covered in this text.