Developing once, deploying everywhere: A case study using JIL

Abstract

With the increasing number of mobile platforms available, developers aiming to bring their products to the larger number possible of consumers are required to program for different platforms, using different development environments, and often resulting in applications with different user experiences. A possible solution for this problem are development frameworks supporting develop once, deploy everywhere cycles. However, these frameworks still possesses serious limitations, like the small number of features they make available when compared with native application development. In this paper, we explore one of these frameworks, and report on the impact of its limitations on the development of a cooperative geo-referencing mobile application. © 2011 Published by Elsevier Ltd.