LoCCAMConfigurator: Uma Ferramenta para Modelagem Visual de Configurações de um Middleware de Suporte à Aplicações Conscientes de Contexto

• Paulo Artur de Sousa Duarte UFC
• Francisco Anderson de Almada Gomes UFC
• Felipe Mota Barreto UFC
• Windson Viana UFC
• Fernando Antonio Mota Trinta UFC

Resumo

The paper aims to describe the architecture and the main features of LoCCAMConfigurator, a tool for visual modeling of context information and contextual rules. This tool assists mobile application developers in the task of modelling context information from their applications and to define context-aware behaviors. LoCCAMConfigurator uses model-driven engineering approach for context modeling and subsequent automatic code generation. The tool uses the models created by the users in order to generate an Android project and a configured version of the context-aware middleware LoCCAM (Loosely Coupled Context Acquisition Middleware). This Android project includes the library and methods of communication between LoCCAM and the future application being developed. All the code for dealing with context gathering, filtering, detection and query is generated by the tool, then, developers can concentrate in the business part of their application.