Plugin-Orb for Applications in a Pervasive Computing Environment

Pervasive computing environments aim to integrate components which are highly heterogeneous, not only in terms of software technologies, but also in terms of hardware resources. Unfortunately, classic middleware platforms do not appear able to cope with such a level of heterogeneity and new communication mechanisms are thus required. This paper presents Plugin-Orb, an adaptive middleware for mobile and embedded devices with poor resources. Plugin-Orb aims to obtain a communication mechanism which would make a client application able to inter-operate with server objects running over different middleware technologies using an unified communication interface, thus having the programmer able to develop applications without taking into account underlying middleware technologies.