Towards a generic architecture for mobile object-oriented applications

Author

Haahr, Mads ; Cunningham, Raymond ; Cahill, Vinny

Author_Institution

Dept. of Comput. Sci., Dublin Univ., Ireland

fYear

2000

fDate

2000

Firstpage

91

Lastpage

96

Abstract

Our previous work in mobility support for CORBA applications resulted in the design and implementation of the Architecture for Location-Independent CORBA Environments (ALICE). The first version of ALICE enabled CORBA objects running on mobile devices to interact transparently with objects hosted by off-the-shelf CORBA implementations without relying on a centralised location register to keep track of their whereabouts. This paper presents the second version of ALICE on which work is ongoing. The improved architecture retains the features of the original and adds support for disconnected operation in the form of caching of server functionality on the client side. Furthermore, the architecture is being generalised beyond CORBA in order to make it applicable to other distribution infrastructures, such as Java RMI and DCOM

Keywords

Internet; client-server systems; distributed object management; land mobile radio; mobile computing; object-oriented methods; protocols; ALICE enabled CORBA objects; Architecture for Location-Independent CORBA Environments; CORBA applications; DCOM; Java RMI; caching; client; disconnected operation; distribution infrastructures; generic architecture; mobile devices; mobile object-oriented applications; mobility support; server functionality; Application software; Computer architecture; Computer science; Educational institutions; Java; Middleware; Mobile communication; Network servers; Protocols; Web server;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

Service Portability and Virtual Customer Environments, 2000 IEEE

Conference_Location

San Francisco, CA

Print_ISBN

0-7803-7133-X

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/SPVCE.2000.934166

Filename

934166