CORBA and the Java Card – Connecting Small Devices to a Standard Event Service

Application development for tiny, intelligent devices has to deal with considerable hardware limitations, especially with regard to storage capacity and communication facilities. Furthermore, most devices offer only very limited low-level programming interfaces, complicating the integration of small devices into large-scale architectures. This paper shows an efficient software mechanism for connecting small devices to existing standard event and notification services. We show how the approach simplifies the communication with small devices and describe how security aspects are integrated.