Mobile Information Exchange and Integration: From Query to Application Layer

Due to the popularity of mobile devices, more and more commercial applications have been developed on these devices. While commercial applications are mostly backed by relational database systems, numerous database engines have been ported to or built on these devices, for example, SQLite. Since connectivity can be unstable or slow, applications such as iAnywhere have considered offline operations while data can be synchronized with the database server whenever the devices are online. On the other hand, while Web-based and XML content are very common these days, unfortunately, these mobile versions of database engines failed to fully support them. This paper considers a translation-based method with a decentralised versioning system in place to support offline operations. Web and XML contents are stored and versioned in a distributed manner and can be synchronized with each other without connecting to a server. The schema of these data can be automatically generated on device. With th...

• Type: Conference
• Year: 2009
• Where: ADC
• Authors: Van T. K. Tran, Raymond K. Wong, William K. Cheung, Jiming Liu
• Keywords: ADC 2009, Commercial Applications, Database, Database Engines, Xml Contents