T his column is all about middleware, and ultimately, middleware is all about integration. Middleware has existed in various forms for many years in systems such as the IBM Customer Information Control System (CICS), numerous message queuing systems such as IBM’s MQ Series, the Common Object Request Broker Architecture (Corba), Microsoft’s Component Object Model (COM), Java 2 Enterprise Edition...

T his column is all about middleware, and ultimately, middleware is all about integration. Middleware has existed in various forms for many years in systems such as the IBM Customer Information Control System (CICS), numerous message queuing systems such as IBM’s MQ Series, the Common Object Request Broker Architecture (Corba), Microsoft’s Component Object Model (COM), Java 2 Enterprise Edition...

To deal with emerging network technologies and services, as well as with varying application requirements and dynamic environmental conditions, middleware has to be reconngurable. This requirement highly aaects the middleware communication architecture , which comprises inherent middleware communication mechanisms and the underlying network architecture. In this report, we introduce an architec...

over the last decade, middleware has emerged as an important architectural component in supporting the construction of distributed applications. However, the current generation of mainstream middleware is always based on the assumptions that distributed applications will run in a static setting. As a result, they fail to provide the appropriate support for the today’s networking environment. Ma...

Currently, there are a number of communication middleware technologies that are successful solutions to provide an abstraction for distributed computing in different domains. Although most current middlewares offer different interfaces for a number of programming languages, they are usually bound to use one specific communication paradigm. The usage of middleware decreases programming complexit...

Middleware for distributed real-time embedded (DRE) systems has grown more and more complex in recent years, to address functional and temporal requirements of complex real-time applications. While current approaches for modeling middleware have eased the task of assembling, deploying and configuring middleware and applications, a more formal, fundamental and lower-level set of models is needed...

Abstract. Heterogeneous non-functional requirements of Distributed Real-Time Embedded (DRE) system put a limit on middleware engineering: the middleware must reflect application requirements, with limited runtime impact. Thus, building an application-tailored middleware is both a requirement and a challenge. In this paper, we provide an overview of our work on the construction of middleware. We...

The literature on mobile middleware is extensive. Numerous aspects of the mobility’s effect on middleware have been analysed and the amount of previous work allowed to identify the most important patterns. Although the notion of “most important middleware” depends on the application supported by the middleware, there are traits that can be discovered in most of the connected mobile applications...

Communication subsystems are used in high-performance parallel computing systems to abstract the lower network layer. By using a communication subsystem, an upper middleware library or runtime system can be more easily ported to different interconnects. By abstracting the network layer, however, the designer typically makes the communication subsystem more specialized for that particular middle...

Ubiquitous Quality of Service(QoS)-aware applications, such as e-business or multimedia delivery are becoming available anywhere anytime. In the past decade, also QoS-oriented middleware services, assisting QoS-aware applications with different aspects of QoS provisions, have been proposed. Assuming the availability of these middleware services, in this paper, we present the application to midd...