PART - Pervasive Applications RunTime


Introduction

PART is a light-weight Java library for building distributed applications, with a specific focus on handheld and embedded devices. PART has been developed within the IPerG research project, funded under the European Commission's IST Programme, where it has been used to build pervasive games.

On the lowest level, PART provides a peer-to-peer communications framework that allows connected devices to communicate via an event based mechanism. PART supports arbitrary connection topologies, ad-hoc establishment of communications groups as well as the parallel use of many types of protocols, e.g., TCP and Bluetooth.

PART also provides a concept of shared objects. Such objects can be used to represent application state and may be replicated and synchronised between the set of running processes. Various discovery mechanisms allow processes to find and retrieve shared objects held by remote processes.                      

PART has been tested on the following platforms:
  • Windows and Linux based PCs (Java 1.4, 5 and 6) 
  • Sony Ericsson K700, K750i, W800i, K800i mobile phones (PART requires J2ME MIDP2)
  • The TINI microcontroller from Maxim Integrated Products
  • The SNAP platform from Imsys Technologies

Availability & Licensing

PART is freely available as open source under a BSD license. The PART source code repository is maintained by Sourceforge. Binary and source code releases can be found on the PART download page. The PART Sourceforge project page can be found here.

Contact

PART is maintained by Olov Ståhl, SICS. For information or questions regarding PART, please send an email to olovs@sics.se

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