Title :
Sync: a Java framework for mobile collaborative applications
Author :
Munson, Jonathan P. ; Dewan, Prasun
Author_Institution :
Dept. of Comput. Sci., North Carolina Univ., Chapel Hill, NC, USA
fDate :
6/1/1997 12:00:00 AM
Abstract :
Introducing the factors of wireless mobile systems into the development of collaborative applications complicates developers´ lives significantly. Application frameworks targeted for coordinating wireless mobile applications simplify development. The authors describe Sync, a development framework that provides high-level primitives that enable programmers to create arbitrarily complex, synchronized, replicated data objects. Designed for wireless networks, Sync enables applications to share changes at a granularity as small as updates to basic types and so enables better performance on low-bandwidth connections
Keywords :
abstract data types; data structures; groupware; mobile radio; object-oriented databases; object-oriented programming; synchronisation; wireless LAN; Java framework; Sync development framework; arbitrarily complex data objects; collaborative application development; high-level primitives; low-bandwidth connections; mobile collaborative applications; programming; replicated data objects; synchronized data objects; updates; wireless mobile application coordination; wireless mobile systems; wireless networks; Application software; Collaboration; Databases; Delay; Java; Local area networks; Mobile communication; Object oriented modeling; Programming profession; Wireless networks;
