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ReMMoC: A Reflective Middleware to Support Mobile Client Interoperability

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Mobile client applications must discover and interoperate with application services available to them at their present location. However, these services will be developed upon a range of middleware types (e.g. RMI and publish-subscribe) and advertised using different service discovery protocols (e.g. UPnP and SLP) unknown to the application developer. Therefore, a middleware platform supporting mobile client applications should ideally adapt its behaviour to interoperate with any type of discovered service. Furthermore, these applications should be developed independently from particular middleware implementations, as the interaction type is unknown until run-time. This paper presents ReMMoC, a reflective middleware platform that dynamically adapts both its binding and discovery protocol to allow interoperation with heterogeneous services. Furthermore, we present the ReMMoC programming model, which is based upon the Web Services concept of abstract services. We evaluate this work in terms of supporting mobile application development and the memory footprint cost of utilising reflection to create a mobile middleware platform.

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  • Service Discovery
  • Mobile Environment
  • Mobile Client
  • Tuple Space
  • Component Framework

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  1. Distributed Multimedia Research Group, Computing Department, Lancaster University, Lancaster, LA1 4YR, UK

    Paul Grace & Gordon S. Blair

  2. Global Wireless Systems Research, Bell Laboratories, Lucent Technologies, Quadrant, Stonehill Green, Westlea, Swindon, SN5 7DJ, UK

    Sam Samuel

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  1. STARLab, Vrije Universiteit Brussel (VUB), Bldg G/10, Pleinlaan 2, 1050, Brussels, Belgium

    Robert Meersman

  2. School of Computer Science and Information Technology, RMIT University, Bld 10.10, 376-392 Swanston Street, VIC 3001, Melbourne, Australia

    Zahir Tari

  3. Department of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science, Vanderbilt University, TN 37203, Nashville, USA

    Douglas C. Schmidt

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Grace, P., Blair, G.S., Samuel, S. (2003). ReMMoC: A Reflective Middleware to Support Mobile Client Interoperability. In: Meersman, R., Tari, Z., Schmidt, D.C. (eds) On The Move to Meaningful Internet Systems 2003: CoopIS, DOA, and ODBASE. OTM 2003. Lecture Notes in Computer Science, vol 2888. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-540-39964-3_75

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