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SCG – A Distributed Sensor Management Network in ActorFrame
Figure 10-5: The former environment for ActorFrame applications
Providing network transparency, both in the traditional end-to-end transparency of the
internet, but also the separation of the application from the network layer, is growing
increasingly more difficult. Not only must an application be aware of its own status,
hardware and network capabilities, it must also consider the other collaborating actors
capabilities. The potential is limited by the weakest link. The new and future
environment for both ActorFrame and other development frameworks will be similar
to that shown in Figure 10-6.
Figure 10-6: The future environemnt for ActorFrame application development
The amount of elements to be considered is much larger and more complex than
before. With the current layering architecture this requires the application to be aware
of, and handle, more and more factors. This will require that the application and
services development will become increasingly more complicated, incurring longer
and more complex development. How to provide a certain level of transparency from
these issues, allowing designers to continue to focus on developing and designing
services independent of these issues, should be an area of future interest and study.
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