Mobile devices use wireless networks that have limited range. Therefore, they
may not always be connected to a network. This kind of intermittent
connectivity in mobile devices has been one of the factors inhibiting
enterprise-level adoption of pervasive mobile applications. Occasionally
Connected Computing (OCC) deals with this problem. The challenge that mobile
application developers face today is to develop applications that will let
users interact uniformly with the application regardless of the connection
status.
In the recent past, Web Services have appeared as a key technology for
mobility with support from leading mobile platforms. However, leveraging Web
Services for occasionally connected mobility applications falls flat because
of a lack of reliability. In t... (more)