Uma abordagem para modelagem de aplicações de computação móvel na nuvem

Abstract

Applications of mobile cloud computing (MCC) are frequent, since these can overcome the problems relating to the limitation of mobile devices because much of the processing and storage is done in the cloud. Following the business model of offering cloud services, different companies have developed cloud platforms. In this context, in addition to different operating systems and APIs, developers must also worry about details for the use of different cloud platforms, each one with its infrastructure and specific API. Due to this complexity models can be used to abstract these implementation details. This work proposes a modeling approach for MCC applications based on UML and SoaML diagrams. The proposed approach aims to build platform independent models, reducing the complexity of the cloud usage and facilitating the definition of a cross-platform code generation tool. Additionally, this work also defines a design pattern for CRUD applications, which aims to standardize the modeling of this type of application, abstracting specific protocols for each platform and thus building a platform-independent model. Through a case study, the proposed approach and design pattern are demonstrated and discussed.