A Heterogeneous Approach for Developing Applications with FIWARE GEs

Simone Di Cola, Cuong Tran, Kung-Kiu Lau
School of Computer Science, The University of Manchester,
Manchester M13 9PL, UK
{dicolas,ctran,kung-kiu}@cs.man.ac.uk

Antonio Celesti and Maria Fazio 
Facolta di Ingegneria Contrada di Dio, S. Agata
Universita Degli Studi di Messina, 98166 Messina, Italy
{acelesti,mfazio}@unime.it

Abstract:

The European Commission funded FIWARE project aims to
support the development of a European cloud, and a rich catalogue of
generic components called Generic Enablers (GEs). However, the lack
of an efficient approach and tool for developing applications using GEs
hinders their adoption. This paper tries to fill this gap by proposing
an approach based on a component model, along with its related tool,
that allows heterogeneous composition of GEs and non-GE components.
The approach is validated with a case study where a content delivery
application is developed.