Integrating Communication Paradigms in a Mobile Middleware Product Line

Several middleware solutions have been proposed for supporting development of networked mobile applications, which are often designed with different distribution requirements and for various application scenarios. In this sense, a middleware that offers only a single communication paradigm (e.g., publish/subscribe) cannot cope with the diversity of applications and its reuse becomes very limited. In this context, this paper goal is to propose a mobile middleware solution which offers a set of communication paradigms, ranging from the traditional synchronous model to different variations of the so-called asynchronous models. In order to optimize memory footprint, common features in distributed communication are shared among all communication paradigms. Additionally, by means of a product line-based design, features can be selected and thus the middleware can be customized to better fit in more constrained devices.