Device Middleware for Mobile Applications

Nowadays, mobile-device applications operate in a virtual sandbox that runs each application in a tightly constrained environment. The applications don’t share code and can’t communicate with each other. This environment offers more security by preventing users from downloading buggy, malicious, or virus-infected code, but it lacks the flexibility, changeability, and maintainability that mobile-device applications require. The industry needs an open standard to integrate these application models in a device middleware that provides the applications’ shared components.