MIGRATION SUPPORT MECHANISM IN OPEN SERVICE AND OPEN MOBILE ARCHITECTURE

摘要

A method for migrating between first and second service enablers in an open service architecture includes registering a second service enabler within op en service architecture framework. The properties of the registered second service enabler are compared with the properties of at least one of first service enablers which determines if the second service enabler is backward compatible to the first service enabler. Information concerning whether the second service enabler is backward compatible with the first service enabler is then forwarded to an application that is using the first service enabler. Additional information that can be send to the application in the same messa ge is e.g. the fact that the second service enabler outdates a first one, a migration strategy and references to interfaces on the second service enable r that the application can already start using.