Accession Number:

ADA561971

Title:

Migrating Department of Defense (DoD) Web Service Based Applications to Mobile Computing Platforms

Descriptive Note:

Master's thesis

Corporate Author:

NAVAL POSTGRADUATE SCHOOL MONTEREY CA

Personal Author(s):

• Lafranchise, Paul A.

Report Date:

2012-03-01

Pagination or Media Count:

51.0

Abstract:

This thesis explores techniques for extending Department of Defense DoD Information Technology IT capability from web-based desktop clients to mobile platforms. Specifically, we examine how existing data services can be consumed by native and web-based mobile clients without modification to the services. We consider the data access layer, the User Interface UI design, and the Total Cost of Ownership TCO as areas to compare and contrast each implementation. We develop a web-based application and implement comparable capability on native and web-based mobile clients. We determined that native applications and mobile aware web applications are capable of consuming an existing web service without modifying the service. In general, we find no clear advantage between our mobile implementations when consuming existing web services and maintaining a consistent UI. We found that, while developing a data access module, it is difficult to share code between an existing web application and a native mobile application. We find that in some cases, a mobile aware web application excels at rapidly deploying on multiple devices and because it maintains a single code baseline lowering the TCO.

Descriptors:

• *COMPUTER NETWORKS
• DATA PROCESSING
• GRAPHICAL USER INTERFACE
• INFORMATION SYSTEMS
• THESES

Subject Categories:

• Computer Systems

Distribution Statement:

APPROVED FOR PUBLIC RELEASE