HHFR: A new architecture for Mobile Web Services Principles and Implementations

By combining mobile computing and Web Services technologies, pervasive computing expects more portability and location transparency for accessing information in anytime from anywhere. Though, a direct integration of two technologies imposes performance limitations because of XML’s verbose nature and physical limitations of mobile computing. We present our new architecture design and implementations, Handheld Flexible Representation (HHFR) in this paper. The architecture provides alternative representations other than XML-based SOAP and fast communication transport options. The negotiation between two end-points using SOAP message sets up characteristics of following stream of messages. The benchmark results show the performance advantage of using the architecture when a session composes a sequence