10th Workshop on Mobile Object Systems

摘要

The consensus at the end of the workshop was that the workshop was a success, and that the theme of object mobility is present in applications, in some form or another. One of the issues discussed at the end of the day was whether the workshop series should continue to be held in the context of the ECOOP conference. On the one hand, the number of attendees has been falling over the years as the vision of objects roaming the Internet becomes less attractive. Research into mobility has shown that security is still a major challenge and that programming abstractions for building mobile object applications are missing. It was suggested that the pervasive computing field might be closer to the mobile object domain today than is standard object-orientation. Many of the issues that are treated in mobile objects occur in pervasive computing. In the former, mobility occurs through objects and threads changing their site of execution. In the later, mobility occurs by physically carrying the device - and its objects and threads - from one network environment to another. A key suggestion in the future is to involve people from the pervasive computing domain in the workshop series.