Authors:
Marc Jansen
1
;
Javier Miranda
2
and
Juan Manuel Murillo
3
Affiliations:
1
University of Applied Sciences Ruhr West and Linnaeus University, Germany
;
2
GLOIN S.L, Spain
;
3
University of Extremadura, Spain
Keyword(s):
Mobile Devices, Web Services, Asynchronous Services.
Related
Ontology
Subjects/Areas/Topics:
Cloud Computing
;
Engineering Mobile Clouds and Mobile-based Systems
;
Location-Based Mobile Cloud Applications and Services
;
Mobile Cloud Computing and Services
;
Mobile Cloud Computing Models, Infrastructures, and Approaches
;
Pervasive Environments
;
Smart Mobile Computing SAAS on Clouds
Abstract:
Mobile devices are nowadays used almost ubiquitously by a large number of users. 2013 was the first year in which the number of sold mobile devices (tablet computers and mobile phones) outperformed the number of PCs' sold. And this trend seems to be continuing in the coming years. Additionally, the scenarios in which these kinds of devices are used, grow almost day by day. Another trend in modern landscapes is the idea of Cloud Computing, that basically allows for a very flexible provision of computational services to customers. Yet, these two trends are not well connected. Of course there exists already quite a large amount of mobile applications (apps) that utilize Cloud Computing based services. The other way round, that mobile devices provide one of the building blocks for the provision of Cloud Computing based services is not well established yet. Therefore, this paper concentrates on an extension of a technology that allows to provide standardized Web Services, as one of the b
uilding blocks for Cloud Computing, on mobile devices. The extension hereby consists of a new approach that now also allows to provide asynchronous Web Services on mobile devices, in contrast to synchronous ones. Additionally, this paper also illustrates how the described technology was already used in an app provided by a business partner.
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