mCMS: A Content Management System Adapter Architecture for Mobile Devices

• Mark Joselli UFF
• Eduardo Soluri Nullpointer Tecnologia
• Jose Ricardo Silva Junior UFF
• Marcelo Zamith UFF
• Esteban Clua UFF

Resumo

Most of the content on the World-Wide Web is designed for desktop computers. Nowadays, with the evolution of mobile phones, smartphones, tablets and Digital TV, this content must be adapted to these different devices, where each have specific characteristics and constraints, like screen dimensions. This adaptation task can consume time and computationl resources, since most solutions resolve it by creating different content versions for different devices. A CMS (Content Management System) is a software that keeps track of every piece of content that is used by websites and portals. A CMS can be adapted for others consumers, like mobile devices. This adaptation can be done by developing plugins for each different device, or creating different resources for each different device, because most of the adaptation needs to be done for each device. In this work, a novel CMS adapter architecture is presented, which is made to adapt the content on CMSs for different devices, through the use of templates that describes how the content must be transformed. Also, since most applications need some form of offline content and normally the cost of network is high, the architecture also provides cache management layer on the client side, in order to provide offline cached content, a data compression mechanism for keeping the data exchange in the network low, and a content version control. This way, the architecture avoid higher data transfers throught the network which in some cases can be slow and expensive over mobile networks.