When building applications for specific domains, we often face a more and more important issue: how do I build the runtime required by the application? For enterprise applications, JEE application servers provide a technical stack containing all required services, but for desktop applications, or communication gateways there are no all-in-one solutions. Indeed, the runtime must fit to the environment and application requirements, making it complex to achieve in a flexible way.
akquinet launched the OW2 Chameleon project in 2009. Chameleon provides a way to build OSGi-based runtimes including the required services and your application. This article explains the motivations behind Chameleon and how Chameleon makes our software development more flexible, robust and efficient.
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SOA in mobile solutions in practice
The last post presented the motivations about using SOA for mobile applications. It described where and how SOA technologies could be used in mobile solutions and the interests to follow such approach. This post describes a product recently developed by akquinet following this approach. This is a concrete demonstration of the advantages of using SOA in mobile solution.
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Towards SOA-based Mobile Solutions
The Mobile Solutions and OSGi competence center of akquinet is specialized in the building of mobile and modular applications. They has developed a high expertise in two different domains:
- Service-Oriented Architecture (SOA)
- Mobile Technologies
Despite they sound different, mixed together it creates a very interesting recipe. Indeed, it provides a new, flexible and efficient way to create mobile systems by infusing service-oriented concepts into mobile technologies. This post presents the motivations of such mix. The next post describes how this recipe was successfully already used.
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