An approach to disconnected operation in an object-oriented database

Author

Chang, Sidney ; Curtis, Dorothy

Author_Institution

Lab. for Comput. Sci., Massachusetts Inst. of Technol., Cambridge, UK

fYear

2002

fDate

8-11 Jan. 2002

Firstpage

19

Lastpage

26

Abstract

With the advent of mobile computers, new challenges arise for software designers. The paper focuses on disconnected operation: making mobile computers work well on shared data whether the network is available or not. Initially the shared data is cached on the mobile computer. Modifications and additions to this cached data will be reconciled with the shared data when the mobile computer is reconnected to the network. Conflict resolution will be used to reconcile conflicting changes. We examine these issues by adding support for disconnected operation to Thor an object-oriented database.

Keywords

mobile computing; object-oriented databases; persistent objects; shared memory systems; Thor; conflict resolution; conflicting changes; disconnected operation; mobile computers; object-oriented database; shared data; software designers; Calendars; Computer networks; Computer science; Concurrent computing; Conference management; Laboratories; Mobile computing; Object oriented databases;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

Mobile Data Management, 2002. Proceedings. Third International Conference on

Print_ISBN

0-7695-1500-2

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/MDM.2002.994352

Filename

994352