WildCAT: a generic framework for context-aware applications

We present WildCAT, an extensible Java framework to ease the creation of context-aware applications. WildCAT provides a simple yet powerful dynamic model to represent an application’s execution context. The context information can be accessed by application programmers through two complimentary interfaces: synchronous requests (pull mode) and asynchronous notifications (push mode). Internally, WildCAT is designed as a framework supporting different levels of extensions, from the simple configuration of the default generic implementation to completely new implementations tailored to specific needs. A given application can mix different implementations for different aspects of its context while only depending on WildCAT’s simple and unified API. Categories and Subject Descriptors D.2.11 [Software Engineering]: Software Architectures; D.2.12 [Software Engineering]: Interoperability Keywords self-adaptive applications, context-awareness, framework

• Type: Conference
• Year: 2005
• Where: MIDDLEWARE
• Authors: Pierre-Charles David, Thomas Ledoux
• Keywords: Application’s Execution Context, Extensible Java Framework, MIDDLEWARE 2005, WildCAT