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====== Distributed Objects for Real ====== | ====== Distributed Objects for Real ====== | ||
- | Over the past year, a number of researchers at the Software Languages Lab have been involved in experiments designed to uncover | + | Over the past year, the Software Languages Lab has been experimenting with new programming |
- | == Volatile Data Clouds == | + | ===== Volatile Data Clouds |
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- | == Tags Objects == | + | ===== Proxy Objects |
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- | The tag objects model represents RFID tags as full-blown objects, which introduces a natural mechanism to deal with **mutable tag data**. | + | The proxy objects model represents RFID-tagged physical objects |
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- | While the //volatile data clouds// model considers RFID tags as containers of data which is to be filtered and interpreted by the application, | + | While the //volatile data clouds// model considers RFID tags to be containers of data which is to be filtered and interpreted by the application, |
- | When treating tags as objects, | + | When interacting with these proxy objects, |
+ | the interaction with classic remote | ||
- | Once a tag object has been discovered, the application can start to interact with it. However, if either the user of the application or the tagged object | + | First of all, mobile RFID-enabled applications need a means to detect when a particular |
+ | mechanism to achieve this is to use the default [[at: | ||
- | While messages are implicitly buffered during | + | Once a proxy object has been discovered, the application can start to interact with it. However, if either the user of the application or the tagged object |
- | Within the tag object model, we have conducted initial experiments on how to use ad hoc // | + | By aligning tagged objects with remote objects, one can develop mobile RFID-enabled applications without having |
- | == Comparison == | + | A particularly interesting abstraction when developing mobile RFID-enabled applications are [[research: |
- | Having implemented both models, it remains unclear whether one of the models presented in this paper is to be preferred over the other. | + | ===== Comparison ===== |
- | The volatile data clouds model treats RFID tags as simple containers of data and aims at providing applications with expressive means to represent a collection of nearby tags which is constantly in flux. | + | Having implemented both models, we have found their virtues |
- | The tag objects model on the other hand treats the contents of an RFID tag as a full-fledged object. | + | The volatile data clouds model treats RFID tags as simple containers of data and aims at providing applications with expressive means to represent a collection of nearby tags which is constantly in flux. Consequently, |
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+ | The tag objects model on the other hand treats the contents of an RFID tag as a full-fledged object. | ||
In all likelihood, a programming model that fully leverages the advantages of a world teeming with tagged objects will incorporate elements of both models presented here. | In all likelihood, a programming model that fully leverages the advantages of a world teeming with tagged objects will incorporate elements of both models presented here. | ||
- | == Further Reading == | + | ===== Further Reading |
* Distributed Objects for Real. Stijn Mostinckx, Andoni Lombide Carreton, Kevin Pinte, Wolfgang De Meuter. Technical report, 2010, Vrije Universiteit Brussel [[|pdf]] | * Distributed Objects for Real. Stijn Mostinckx, Andoni Lombide Carreton, Kevin Pinte, Wolfgang De Meuter. Technical report, 2010, Vrije Universiteit Brussel [[|pdf]] |
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