Wireless Application Protocol (WAP) is an industry standard aimed to bring the web to handheld devices. The handheld devices are constrained by battery life and it becomes important that power is conserved across web transactions. The power consumed by the handheld device is directly proportional to the time taken for a transaction and time can be minimized to conserve power. The WAP server gateway sits between handheld devices and web content providers. The turnaround time for transactions can be improved by optimizing the WAP server gateway. Load balancing of the requests between various server processes was implemented. A server cache on the WAP gateway server to "remember" previous requests and contents was implemented
