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Handling erroneous conditions in context-aware mobile agent systems is challenging due to their intrinsic characteristics: openness, lack of structuring, mobility, asynchrony, and increased unpredictability. Even though several context-aware middleware systems support now the development of mobile agent-based applications, they rarely provide explicit and adequate features for context-aware exception handling. This paper reports our experience in implementing error handling strategies in some prototype context-aware collaborative applications built with the MoCA (Mobile Collaboration Architecture) system. MoCA is a publish-subscribe middleware supporting the development of collaborative mobile applications by incorporating explicit services to empower software agents with context-awareness. We propose a novel context-aware exception handling mechanism and discuss some lessons learned during its integration in the MoCA infrastructure. The discussions include how to use other emerging implementation techniques, such as aspect-oriented programming, to address the limitations of classical publish-subscribe mechanisms identified in our study. Copyright 2006 ACM.
Author(s): Damasceno K, Cacho N, Garcia A, Romanovsky A, Lucena C
Publication type: Conference Proceedings (inc. Abstract)
Publication status: Published
Conference Name: Proceedings of the International Conference on Software Engineering
Year of Conference: 2006
Pages: 37-43
Publisher: ACM Press
URL: http://dx.doi.org/10.1145/1138063.1138071
DOI: 10.1145/1138063.1138071
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ISBN: 1595933956
