A Component-Based Service Creation Framework for Mobile Applications

The design and development of mobile data services is a complex undertaking that demands expertise from system architecture, software design, wireless communication protocols, to the integration of legacy systems. Service designers have to deal with various aspects and issues at both system and application levels where the complexity and heterogeneity of the network infrastructure have to be considered. This paper describes a component-based service creation framework to simplify the design and development of mobile data services. With high level design abstraction, constraints of application domains, and the guidance of domain rules, a component-based framework enables rapid creation of mobile data services. Case studies which show the development and deployment of mobile applications are presented