On the design and development of webinos: a distributed mobile application middleware

Authors:
John Lyle;Shamal Faily;Ivan Fléchais;André Paul;Ayşe Göker;Hans Myrhaug;Heiko Desruelle;Andrew Martin
Affiliations:
Department of Computer Science, University of Oxford, UK;Department of Computer Science, University of Oxford, UK;Department of Computer Science, University of Oxford, UK;Fraunhofer Institute for Open Communication Systems, Germany;AmbieSense Ltd., UK,Department of Information Science, City University London, UK;AmbieSense Ltd., UK;Dept. of Information Technology, Ghent University --- IBBT, Ghent, Belgium;Department of Computer Science, University of Oxford, UK
Venue:
DAIS'12 Proceedings of the 12th IFIP WG 6.1 international conference on Distributed Applications and Interoperable Systems
Year:
2012

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Abstract

As personal devices become smarter, opportunities arise for sharing services, applications and data between them. While web technologies hold the promise of being a unifying layer, browsers lack functionality for supporting inter-device communication, synchronization, and security. To address this, we designed webinos: a cross-device distributed middleware providing interoperability, compatibility and security for mobile web applications. In this paper we present a case study of the webinos project, showing how the architecture of webinos was specified, designed and implemented, and reflect on several lessons learned.