Using WAP as the enabling technology for CORBA in mobile and wireless environments

Author

Ruggaber, Rainer ; Schiller, Jochen ; Seitz, Jochen

Author_Institution

Inst. of Telematics, Karlsruhe Univ., Germany

fYear

1999

fDate

1999

Firstpage

69

Lastpage

74

Abstract

CORBA is currently the most popular middleware platform. Due to the progress and acceptance of mobile communications, it is inevitable to offer CORBA services for mobile terminals, especially over a wireless link. The Object Management Group, the standardization body for CORBA, already requested proposals for extending CORBA in the wireless environment, leading to several submissions. However, the standardization process is far from being completed. Therefore, we propose the adaptation of an outstanding approach to supply a range of services in the mobile environment, the Wireless Application Protocol (WAP) framework. In the paper, we show how the CORBA standard and the WAP framework can converge, leading to a comprehensive middleware platform for distributed applications in a wireless and mobile environment

Keywords

client-server systems; distributed object management; mobile communication; protocols; radio access networks; standardisation; CORBA; WAP; enabling technology; middleware platform; mobile communications; mobile environments; wireless application protocol; wireless environments; Access protocols; Environmental management; Middleware; Mobile communication; Network servers; Proposals; Radiofrequency interference; Standardization; Telematics; Wireless application protocol;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

Distributed Computing Systems, 1999. Proceedings. 7th IEEE Workshop on Future Trends of

Conference_Location

Cape Town

ISSN

1071-0485

Print_ISBN

0-7695-0468-X

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/FTDCS.1999.818786

Filename

818786