2.2 Reflective Middleware 2.3 Fundamental Reflective Middleware Architectures

As a mobile devices moves it naturally encounters change in its environment, i.e. change in context (such as the device location), change in network conditions and change in available resources. Therefore, mobile middleware must be able to adapt its behaviour dynamically to continue to provide the best level of service to applications. In this chapter we focus on the use of reflection to build dynamic middleware. A series of case studies illustrate solutions that have successfully benefited from the reflective middleware approach