Mobile Web Services

The challenge for architects designing software is to be able to seamlessly support mobile devices. Where a software architect could before count on a keyboard, mouse, and monitor together with a hard disk drive, a reasonable amount of memory and processing power, she can no longer count on such a fixed and well-defined target platform. Instead, the architect must now concern herself with whether a display is available at all, and whether the available processing resources are sufficient to provide a reasonable latency to the application. Moreover, as the number and type of mobile devices increase, architects must think about how the nuances between different devices will affect their software.

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