Deployment of Component-based Applications on Top of a Context-aware Middleware.
Dhouha Ayed, Nabiha Belhanafi, Chantal Taconet, Bernard Guy · 2005
With the expansion of wireless communication and mobile hand-held devices, mobile applications are required to re-act to frequent changes in the environment, such as new geographical location and high variability of network band-width. This paper describes the installation of a deploy-ment service on top of a context-aware middleware. This latter enables interaction with context by providing a meta-model of the context information and a set of components able to collect and analyse the context information. The de-ployment service has to describe its relevant context using the meta-model provided by this middleware. When rele-vant changes occur, deployment service is notified in order to apply its adaptation process. KEY WORDS Middleware, context-awareness, dynamic deployment, component-based applications, adaptation, meta-modelisation. 1