Experiences with Mobile Application Development within MOPAS

Sammendrag/Abstract: This paper describes a project implementing a pilot application for highly mobile ship surveyors. It demonstrates the usefulness of seamless integration and functional complementation between various platforms. It is a common problem in today's mobile computing that the content as well as presentation tiers of applications may have to be replicated across platforms. This paper introduces the MOPAS system, in which a layered architecture of dedicated markup-languages and translation engines facilitates seamless integration between HTTP-and WAP-based media. The surveyors, whose work comprised the main source of inspiration for its design, favorably evaluated the system. Future work aims to generalize the MOPAS architecture to cover other media, such as Windows CE over Wireless LAN as well as a wider range of applications for mobile field-workers.