Chapter 4. Managed Smart Clients
CHAPTER OVERVIEW
Container-Managed Mobile Clients
OSGi Containers
OSGi Bundle Interactions
IBM Service Management Framework
A Simple Echo Service Example
Smart Client with HTTP Front End
The Pizza Order Example
Mobile Gateways
In Chapter 3, we discussed the smart client paradigm. However, for complex mobile applications, monolithic clients with intertangled code segments are very hard to develop and maintain. We need a framework to develop modularized application and service components. In this chapter, we introduce the concept of managed smart clients—self-contained components inside software containers. The container provides common crosscutting services and a framework for components to communicate with each other. The ...
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