Integrating Communication Paradigms in a Mobile Middleware Product Line
Yuri Morais, Glêdson Elias · 2010
Several middleware solutions have been proposed for supporting development of networked mobile applications, which are often designed with different distribution requirements and for various application scenarios. In this sense, a middleware that offers only a single communication paradigm (e.g., publish/subscribe) cannot cope with the diversity of applications and its reuse becomes very limited. In this context, this paper goal is to propose a mobile middleware solution which offers a set of communication paradigms, ranging from the traditional synchronous model to different variations of the so-called asynchronous models. In order to optimize memory footprint, common features in distributed communication are shared among all communication paradigms. Additionally, by means of a product line-based design, features can be selected and thus the middleware can be customized to better fit in more constrained devices.