The SW-CMM, developed by the Software Engineering Institute is not well supported by software measurement. We describe the salient features of this approach, including a set of two languages to define, manipulate, compose, and locate e-services. We also provide a WebBIS architecture that relies on emerging Web-based technologies including XML, Java, EJB, and database APIs. Further, the environment in which mobile clients operate is very dynamic and continually changing. Hence, the applications need to adapt to the changing environment and availability of resources.
Various systems exist that provide support for application-level adaptation.
Architecture is proposed that is portable and sensitive to architecture and context changes in network operations. The proposed architecture is demonstrated to lead to a more intelligent cost estimation with regard to applications like mobile agents.