The Improved Peer2Me Framework - A flexible framework for mobile collaboration
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This master thesis presents a new and redesigned version of Peer2Me, a framework for developing mobilecollaborative applications on mobile phones. The first version of Peer2Me was designed and created byCarl-Henrik Wolf Lund and Michael Sars Norum in 2005, which was presented in their master thesis,The Peer2Me Framework, [31]. We evaluated their framework in our depthstudy [5], fall of 2005. Theevaluation showed that the framework lacked some desired and necessary functionality, had some bugsand was a bit hard to use.This thesis also describes the history of Peer2Me along with cental concepts regarding peer-to-peer networkingin an mobile ad hoc environment. There are a lot of on going and finished projects that can berelated to Peer2Me. We have chosen to investigate the most interesting and relevant projects, which arepresented in Chapter 11, State of the Art. Since a redesign of the Peer2Me framework was necessary, wehave performed a research in the most recognized architectural tactics, design patterns and architecturalpatters.Before embarking on the task of designing the framework, a research in the latest technology was necessary.In our depthstudy [5], we had already performed such a research, so we only had to obtain thelatest development in the related areas. Special attention was given to the Bluetooth wireless networktechnology.All created packages, classes and interfaces are thoroughly described along with their roles in the framework.We felt that a mere description of the modules was not enough, so we wrote Chapter 16, DesignDecisions, which discusses the different crossroads we faced with during development, and the path wechose.To give the reader an impression of how the framework can be used, we also developed some applicationsthat utilizes the new framework. Lastly we evaluated our work, compared the old and newframework, discussed the problems we encountered, answered our research questions and summarized thethesis.All source code, javadoc and a functional, new version of Peer2Me are attached along with this report.