Context-awareness for Next-Generation Applications Servers

Yves-Gael Billet (1) , Christophe Gravier (1) , Jacques Fayolle (1)

1 LT2C - Laboratoire Telecom Claude Chappe

The design of context-aware applications calls for ad hoc software patterns. Meantime, most applications are deployed in an application server. An application server hosts several context-aware application which embeds in its business logic the ability to tune the service by taking into account significant context updates. As a consequence, such applications present their own implementation of context sensing, reasoning and decision-making. Therefore it is difficult to adapt them to new context information as well as making them revise their reasoning algorithms. This strong coupling between context awareness and the business logic of the application is an utmost issue for the development of context-aware applications. This paper describes how to generalize context-awareness as a service provided by the application server. This allows freeing the developer from the task of implementing collecting and reasoning with context

Domaines: Informatique ubiquitaire

Yves-Gael Billet, Christophe Gravier, Jacques Fayolle. Context-awareness for Next-Generation Applications Servers. CONTEXT 2011, 7th Modeling and Reasoning in Context workshop, Sep 2011, Karlsruhe, Germany, France. pp.1-10. ⟨hal-00991015⟩