Shared Storage in J2ME: A Multi-agent System Approach

Current research trend towards mobile computing emphasizes the need for distribution of data among various clients in wireless environment. Sharing the data in J2ME opens the data to be accessible for all MIDLETs present on the device, hence creating a number of vulnerabilities to the confidential information that is intended to be shared with specific MIDLETs, e.g. a malicious MIDLET can delete, copy or move the Shared Record Store, in J2ME based application. This project aims at overcoming record store sharing problem through the concept of Multi- Agent System by providing a shared storage with explicit access to authenticated & authorized MIDLETs. With this mechanism data can be shared among specific MIDLETs. The implementation uses the SAGE-Lite framework as a solution to our proposed work.