Middleware: Achieving Open Systems for the Enterprise - Softcover

Korzeniowski, Paul

Softcover

ISBN 10: 1566079829 ISBN 13: 9781566079822

Publisher: Computer Technology Research, 1997

Synopsis

This CTR report examines how current business requirements are compelling companies to streamline their diverse computer infrastructures. The report addresses the different features available in middleware systems and the benefits they offer to developers and end users. The report also discusses how heightened interest in Internet and intranet applications may diminish the appeal of client/server (C/S) and present a challenge to middleware vendors.

What Exactly Is Middleware?

As the report explains, the term middleware describes a handful of products that use radically different architectures to offer broadly similar sets of services. These products mediate high-level communications between client and server or server and server and can be divided into five primary categories: message passing systems, remote procedure calls (RPCs), object request brokers (ORBs), online transaction processing (OLTP) monitors, and database management systems (DBMS).

The report offers a detailed description of each middleware product and provides answers to these vital questions: How does the product work? What are the products' capabilities and limitations? What are the criteria for product selection? Who are the key suppliers?

Your Guide to Successful Middleware Implementation

The advent of client/server (C/S) applications has dramatically changed corporate application development requirements. Today's organizations are operating using a broad range of computers, network protocols, and databases, and something is needed to link the system together and mask the differences between the components.

Middleware, which acts as a buffer between operating systems, networks, and disparate applications, is becoming a popular tool to help organizations overcome interconnectivity problems.

CTR's report, Middleware: Achieving Open Systems for the Enterprise, provides an in-depth analysis of middleware technology, a comprehensive examination of the primary middleware products, advantages and disadvantages of each middleware product, information on building, maintaining, and evaluating a middleware framework, and an analysis of the Internet's effect on middleware implementation.

About this title

From the Publisher

Computer Technology Research Corp. (CTR) is an internationally-recognized research and publishing company. Since 1979, CTR's reports have provided information on major technologies, trends, products, companies, and markets concerning the computer industry. Our reports assist executives, users, and vendors with making strategic decisions regarding information technology products and services.

Each CTR report includes management summaries, competitive analyses, technical product evaluations, vendor marketing strategies and case studies. CTR's reports are independently researched and present unbiased, objective views, strengths and limitations of products, and insight into technology directions. The reports provide managers with the vital quality information that is needed to successfully plan large- and small-scale information technology projects.

About the Author

Paul Korzeniowski is a technical writer based out of Sudbury, Massachusetts. He specializes in middleware and network operating systems. He is currently teaching writing classes at the Cambridge Center for Adult Education. In addition, Mr. Korzeniowski writes for Computerworld, Network World, and Communications Week.

A freelance writer since 1992, Mr. Korzeniowski has written feature articles for the Boston Business Journal, Entrepreneurial Woman, and Investor's Business Daily.

Mr. Korzeniowski holds a B.A. in Communications from the University of Notre Dame and an M.S. in Journalism from Boston University.

Edition details

• Publisher: Computer Technology Research
• Publication date: 1997
• ISBN 10: 1566079829
• ISBN 13: 9781566079822
• Binding: Paperback
• Language: English
• Edition number: 1
• Number of pages: 196