Sync: a Java framework for mobile collaborative applications

Author

Munson, Jonathan P. ; Dewan, Prasun

Author_Institution

Dept. of Comput. Sci., North Carolina Univ., Chapel Hill, NC, USA

Volume

30

Issue

6

fYear

1997

fDate

6/1/1997 12:00:00 AM

Firstpage

59

Lastpage

66

Abstract

Introducing the factors of wireless mobile systems into the development of collaborative applications complicates developers´ lives significantly. Application frameworks targeted for coordinating wireless mobile applications simplify development. The authors describe Sync, a development framework that provides high-level primitives that enable programmers to create arbitrarily complex, synchronized, replicated data objects. Designed for wireless networks, Sync enables applications to share changes at a granularity as small as updates to basic types and so enables better performance on low-bandwidth connections

Keywords

abstract data types; data structures; groupware; mobile radio; object-oriented databases; object-oriented programming; synchronisation; wireless LAN; Java framework; Sync development framework; arbitrarily complex data objects; collaborative application development; high-level primitives; low-bandwidth connections; mobile collaborative applications; programming; replicated data objects; synchronized data objects; updates; wireless mobile application coordination; wireless mobile systems; wireless networks; Application software; Collaboration; Databases; Delay; Java; Local area networks; Mobile communication; Object oriented modeling; Programming profession; Wireless networks;

fLanguage

English

Journal_Title

Computer

Publisher

ieee

ISSN

0018-9162

Type

jour

DOI

10.1109/2.587549

Filename

587549