Research on Heterogeneous Component Platform for Pervasive Computing

Software component technique improves the software productivity. Current mainstream component platforms (EJB, COM, .NET etc.) have already achieved success in software engineering, but are mostly aimed to traditional desk-top computing, still inapplicable to the dynamical pervasive computing. Accordingly, a component platform for pervasive computing is required urgently. This paper makes a brief introduction to current mainstream component platforms, then presents a component platform for pervasive computing, named CAR (Component Assembly Runtime). At last, an abstract software development model is proposed based on the CAR platform.