SoapME: a lightweight Java ME web service container

ABSTRACT

With ubiquitous computing becoming reality there is a great potential of computing power in the surroundings. This can be provided by mobile devices such as mobile phones and PDAs building spontaneous networks. For service provisioning, Web services are an accepted standard. We advocate that these can also be used in ubiquitous scenarios.

In this paper, we present SoapME, a novel SOAPbased Web service container for Java ME. SoapME is very lightweight and supports resource-limited devices running only Java ME CLDC. Unlike related work, it provides dynamic deployment of SOAP-based Web services at runtime. Our SoapME prototype provides several extension points, for instance for invocation interception. It shows reasonable performance on a mobile phone and is compliant to the standard SOAP test collection specification.

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INDEX TERMS

Primary Classification:
  H. Information Systems
  H.3 INFORMATION STORAGE AND RETRIEVAL
      H.3.5 On-line Information Services
          Subjects: Web-based services

Additional Classification:
  C. Computer Systems Organization
  C.2 COMPUTER-COMMUNICATION NETWORKS
      C.2.4 Distributed Systems
          Subjects: Distributed applications

  D. Software
  D.2 SOFTWARE ENGINEERING
        D.2.11 Software Architectures
            Subjects: Domain-specific architectures

General Terms:
Design

Keywords:
Java ME, SOAP, web services