Demo Abstract: Reproducible Deployment of Pervasive Applications

Pervasive systems present stringent requirements that make software deployment especially challenging. The unknown and fluctuating environment in which pervasive applications are executed discards traditional approaches. As a result, there is an increasing need for a reproducible and dynamic deployment process. In last years, we developed several industrial pervasive platforms and applications. Based on these experiences we propose Rondo, a tool suite for deploying pervasive applications. Rondo includes a domain-specific language for declaratively describing applications, a deployment manager that can dynamically apply these descriptions and development tools for helping the description of applications. In this paper we present this tool suite and a set of deployment scenarios in which we validated our approach, including a web framework and a home automation platform.