Vision

With respect to the development of mobile applications, the MyMobileWeb vision can be outlined as follows:

  • ·        Mobile development should be driven by a ‘channel model’ based on the principles of Service Oriented Architectures (SOA): Applications should publish business services that are accessible from different channels: desktop web and the mobile web. These services should be independent of the access channel and need not be duplicated. The diagram below illustrates this fundamental idea.

  •      Mobile Web is different than the conventional web because it has different content, presentation, layout and navigation schema (markup transcoding is an anti-pattern). Both channels might be integrated in the same server and CMS but, essentially, they are different. This is aligned with the .mobi vision and the mobile Top Level Domain (mTLD).

  • The Mobile Web channel is composed by:
    • Information that users want to access while they are on the move.
    • Information that people want all the time.

As a result, the mobile channel only typically addresses a small percentage of functions of a full Web Channel.

  • Mobile applications and portals should follow all the patterns and best practices of Rapid Application Development (RAD) in order to achieve a reduction of time and budget in the deployment of solutions.
  • The development of top-quality mobile applications, that exploit the delivery context, should be a relatively easy task to programmers that are skilled in Web technologies, Java and XML.
  • Semantic Web technologies will play a fundamental role in the development of the Mobile Web

 

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