Supporting mobile online multiuser service development

Mobile phones have emerged as the dominant communication platform. Since the early days, mobile phones have gradually become open platforms for applications and services, and more and more are expected of services. Multi-user application platform (MUPE) is a platform for rapid development of multi-user context-aware mobile application. This paper studies and analyzes which aspects of MUPE development are the most difficult and how to help developers with these problems. Moreover, an Eclipse plug-in toolset which solves at least some of these problems is presented. In addition example game development process with MUPE and toolset is introduced and analysed, and some feedback from MUPE workgroups is presented.