Microsoft .NET Compact Framework offers
a development platform for mobile applications but is lacking support
for .NET Remoting, which is the .NET middleware infrastructure for
inter-application communication. The current version of the .NET Compact
Framework (1.0, SP2) does support communication using web services.
Unfortunately, this support cannot be used in its current form to seamlessly
integrate with an existing .NET Remoting application. In this paper,
we propose an approach that leverages the present support for web services
and augments it to make such integration possible. Our solution dynamically
maps back and forth between .NET Remoting and web service messages
without needing to alter the existing Remoting applications.
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