Interactive mobile applications development using adapting component model

Abstract

In the reason of the variability which characterizes the context of such environments, it is important that mobile applications are developed so that they can dynamically adapt their extra functional behavior, in order to optimize the experience perceived by their users. In this paper we discuss some of the problems of the current mobile based human management applications and show how the introduction of adaptive CBD (Component Based Development) model provides flexible and extensible solutions to mobile applications. Mobile applications resources become encapsulated as components, with well-defined interfaces through which all interactions occur. Builders of components can inherit the interfaces and their implementations, and methods (operations) can be redefined to better suit the component. New characteristics, such as concurrency control and persistence, can be obtained by inheriting from suitable base classes, without necessarily requiring any changes to users of these resources. We describe the mobile applications frameworks and adaptive component model, which we have developed, based upon these ideas, and show, through a prototype implementation, how we have used the model to address the problems of referential integrity and transparent component (resource) migration. We will show the prototyping applications using our approaches. We also give indications of future work.