Bridging the gaps towards structured mobile SOA

  • Authors:
  • Apostolos Papageorgiou;Bastian Leferink;Julian Eckert;Nicolas Repp;Ralf Steinmetz

  • Affiliations:
  • Technische Universität Darmstadt, Darmstadt, Germany;Technologiepark Karlsruhe, Karlsruhe, Germany;Technische Universität Darmstadt, Darmstadt, Germany;Technische Universität Darmstadt, Darmstadt, Germany;Technische Universität Darmstadt, Darmstadt, Germany

  • Venue:
  • Proceedings of the 7th International Conference on Advances in Mobile Computing and Multimedia
  • Year:
  • 2009

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Abstract

As the principle of service-orientation is gaining ground in a significant number of emerging solutions, the definition of standards coupled with the appearance of new architectures bring a new era in software development. New technologies enable the usage and composition of services in mobile environments, such as PDAs or common cell phones, thus paving the way for "mobile SOA". However, the lack of middleware and technical solutions and the limitation of SOA appliance only within enterprise systems have forced mobile SOA to remain primitive. Mobile services are being rather used with mashup techniques. In this paper, we investigate in three steps how to move from "unregulated mobile service mashing-up" to "structured mobile SOA". First, we give a roadmap, analyzing critical mashup issues. Then, as a proof of concept, we describe a novel application, named "Services To Go!", which, based on the proposed roadmap, provides a mobile client with various capabilities, such as map-based services, location-based services, routing services, social networking services, and more. In the third and last step, we use the "Services to Go!" experience to introduce a proposal for bridging the gaps between current mashing-up and structured mobile SOA.