Infraestrutura de software baseada em componentes para a construção de aplicações para comunidades virtuais móveis.

Abstract

The popularization of mobile devices and wireless communication technologies has allowed the development of various applications concerning mobile virtual communities. Examples of such applications are related to mobile learning, workflow management, and healthcare communities. These applications have some issues in common, such as establishment of communities, notification of proximity among individuals, representation of individuals’ interests, share of content among the communities’ members,among others. In this work we introduce a component-based software infrastructure for building mobile virtual communities applications dealing with the above mentioned issues. This infrastructure allows a systematic development of applications in this context, based on the concepts of reusability and flexibility. In order to validate the developed infrastructure, we present a prototype application for mobile virtual communities.