Wapple has announced the launch of Wapple Architect, which it says enables developers to quickly mobilize existing PC web applications and create new mobile services that integrate existing data and content, with the confidence that they will work on every mobile device.
According to Wapple, only 50% of traditional websites can be viewed via mobile, with the other 50% providing a poor user experience because they have not been designed for mobile devices.  Wapple says that Wapple Architect dramatically cuts the time and cost of mobilizing web applications and delivering rich multimedia mobile content. And because Wapples device profiler automatically recognises the characteristics of any mobile device, the application and content instantly repurposes to work on the thousands of different handset and software combinations on the market, eliminating the need for manual device or browser profiling, or for the development of  multiple versions.
There is growing demand for good quality mobile applications and content, but developers have
been faced with the impossible task of supporting more than 50,000 device and software variants,
says Wapple CTO, Rich Holdsworth. The result is that many have either used crude transcoding to deliver very basic content or spent weeks developing different sites for different phones. With Wapple Architect, developers simply build it once and let Wapples delivery engine do the rest.
At the heart of Architect is Wapples XML-based mark-up language, WAPL (Wapple Application Programming Language). This enables the development of genuine device independent applications that can be written in any language and output in WAPL. WAPL works in the same way as HTML/XHTML for websites and applications. Once WAPL files have been added, Wapples web services will detect if a mobile device is being used to access the site and output WAPL as the view file.
The Wapple Exhibit device profiler and delivery engine provides dynamic and intelligent optimisation so that applications and domains developed using Wapple Architect are accurately rendered not just for all of the devices in use now but from the moment a new device or update is launched onto the market.
A beta version of Wapple Architect is available now. Theres more information here.