Abstract:
Mobility, which is becoming an unavoidable part of today’s life, brings
with it the need for a new class of applications that have the knowledge of their
rapidly changing surroundings. This feature is called context awareness. Locationawareness
is the most vital part of context awareness. Future mobile applications
require highly dynamic and adaptive services from the middleware components i.e.
location awareness. This aspect has not been considered much to provide a
standard framework for location aware component development. Existing location
aware application development is strictly domain dependant and location-sensing
technology centric. It is needed that component technology must be enhanced to
provide support for location awareness to mobile applications for adapting their
behaviors accordingly. Traditional middleware, based on component technology,
have also not addressed this emerging need of these wide ranges of applications.
This research integrates component technology with the proposed Extrinsic-Meta
Object Protocols abbreviated as Extrinsic-MOP in Location-driven Reflectivemiddleware
for mobile Applications. It is achieved through Meta Object Protocols
for supporting development of location aware applications It specializes the
concept of Meta Object Protocols in two aspects: firstly by extending it to provide
the state of the object that is not inside the object (extrinsic), secondly by providing
a standard framework for developing location aware components. Extrinsic-MOP
framework is domain and technology independent for location aware component
development. It proved to be a very simple and powerful way to programmatically
develop location-driven applications based on autonomic components.
