Supporting Collborative Mobile Applications using Adaptable Transactional Framework

The theme of this paper is on support of mobile applications using adaptable transactional framework. We specifically look at the case of the adaptable-transactional framework approach CAGISTrans. The paper discusses how such a framework can be used to address the challenges incurred by the collaborative and dynamic nature of mobile applications, as well as its inherited mobile nature. It is widely known that several approaches to this theme already exist. However, many of the solutions are at most proprietary, and do not take all aspects and challenges of mobile applications and mobile environments into consideration. With CAGISTrans, which was originally developed for cooperative work support, we have attempted allow the transactional support to be adaptable, thus covering most situations and needs as possible. Our hypothesis is that with extensions, CAGISTrans can be used to address mobile collaborative applications. In general, we believe our approach is useful, but we still recognise the fact that it still has rooms for improvements. There are issues that have still to be addressed such as full support for frequent disconnection, replication and recovery requirements.