Resurrection: A Platform for Spontaneously Generating and Managing Proximity Documents

Abstract

Ubiquitous technology raises the challenges inherent to the users mobility. A user may hold on his mobile device his usual documents, and may be able to handle them without the existence of editing softwares. In this article, we aim to reach two goals: (i) handling documents without necessarily using specific softwares and (ii) automatically and spontaneously generating those documents. For that purpose, we rely on service-oriented programming paradigms, especially services deployment and composition capabilities. We propose a platform, called Resurrection, where we consider documents as services incorporating their own handling functions and able to be deployed and executed over a pervasive environment. Our system starts an automatic and spontaneous services documents generation in case of environment proximity. This generation proceeds to documents contents aggregation. We implement our platform using OSGi and UPnP frameworks