Open AccessHYBRID APPLICATION SUPPORT FOR MOBILE INFORMATION SYSTEMS
Author(s) -
Volker Gruhn,
Malte Hülder
Publication year - 2005
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Conference proceedings
DOI - 10.5220/0002522802320237
Subject(s) - computer science , mobile computing , distributed computing , mobile device , wireless network , ubiquitous computing , wireless , computer network , embedded system , human–computer interaction , telecommunications , world wide web
The wide-spread presence of wireless networks and the availability of mobile devices has enabled the development of mobile applications that take us a step closer to accomplishing Weiser’s vision of ubiquitous computing (Weiser, 1991). Unfortunately however, network connectivity is still not given anywhere and at any time. To increase the benefit of mobile applications, the next logical step is to provide support for an offline modethat allows to continuously work with an application, even when the device is not connected to a network. In this paper typical problems of replicating data are explained, possible solutions are discussed and two architectural patterns that could be used to implement hybrid support are illustrated.
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