Title :
An approach to disconnected operation in an object-oriented database
Author :
Chang, Sidney ; Curtis, Dorothy
Author_Institution :
Lab. for Comput. Sci., Massachusetts Inst. of Technol., Cambridge, UK
Abstract :
With the advent of mobile computers, new challenges arise for software designers. The paper focuses on disconnected operation: making mobile computers work well on shared data whether the network is available or not. Initially the shared data is cached on the mobile computer. Modifications and additions to this cached data will be reconciled with the shared data when the mobile computer is reconnected to the network. Conflict resolution will be used to reconcile conflicting changes. We examine these issues by adding support for disconnected operation to Thor an object-oriented database.
Keywords :
mobile computing; object-oriented databases; persistent objects; shared memory systems; Thor; conflict resolution; conflicting changes; disconnected operation; mobile computers; object-oriented database; shared data; software designers; Calendars; Computer networks; Computer science; Concurrent computing; Conference management; Laboratories; Mobile computing; Object oriented databases;
Conference_Titel :
Mobile Data Management, 2002. Proceedings. Third International Conference on
Print_ISBN :
0-7695-1500-2
DOI :
10.1109/MDM.2002.994352
