Speakers: Nikunj Mehta

Session

Web Application Data Access and Synchronization

While many feel that the problem of data synchronization for mobility has already been solved (many times), it is clear that we live in a world of many fragmented solutions for synchronization, and often times pay for client technology to synchronize data. Oracle has proposed a solution, called AtomDB, for uniform data synchronization designed for the Web using existing open standards such as Atom and HTTP. This solution addresses the network unreliability problem mainly in the context of Web browsers. AtomDB is a transparent, local, read-write cache for application data that is synchronized with data sources using the same application interfaces used by AJAX applications to access their data. There are many difficult challenges for a mobile developer to solve that are unavoidable -- ensuring data availability so that an application can find it easily when it needs it should not be another burden.

Bio

Since his early days, Nikunj has been working in the crosshairs of mobile and Web as well as business and data. He is an entrepreneur at heart and an architect at work. Nikunj leads the AtomDB project at Oracle and helps shape Oracle's strategy in distributed applications, mobile technology, and Web databases. He works in Oracle's Database Advanced Development Group. His doctoral thesis focused on implementation primitives for distributed software architecture styles. He dons the colors of USC and University of Mumbai, both in computer science.