Serain Middleware

1. Auflage 1999
ISBN: 978-1-4471-3387-2
Verlag: Springer
Format: PDF
Kopierschutz: 1 - PDF Watermark

E-Book, Englisch, 217 Seiten, eBook

Reihe: Practitioner Series

Middleware is a layer of software situated between the operating system and the applications, permitting them to exchange information among themselves. This book looks at some of the typical problems found in businesses, that can be solved by an approach based on middleware technologies and also describes the close interlap of the Internet with middleware. Middleware contributes to the diffusion and understanding of role played by middleware in the design of future complex information systems and will be important reading for practitioners. This book is aimed at senior designers and technical managers, which would include both professionals working for sophisticated user organisations and those working for software suppliers and systems houses. It is also written to be part of a final year university course in Information Technology Applied to Business Management and as such will of interest to final year undergraduates as well.

Zielgruppe

Professional/practitioner

Autoren/Hrsg.

Serain, Daniel

Weitere Mitwirkende

Craig, I.

Inhaltsverzeichnis

The problems to be solved.- Positioning of Middleware.- The Internet and client/server architectures.- Object-oriented Modelling.- Message-Based Middleware.- Principal functions.- Evaluation of the principal products.- RPC-Based Middleware.- The client-server model.- Client-server and procedure call.- Principles of the remote procedure call (RPC) architecture.- The concept of contract between client and server.- Structure of communication.- The Standard.- CORBA: Standard object-based Middleware.- The CORBA conceptual model; architecture; CORBA 2.0 standard.- Object services.- OLE/COM: Object-based middleware from Microsoft.- The COM object model.- OLE 2.- Comparison between CORBA and OLE/COM.- Code reuse: inheritance and aggregation.- Composite document handling: OLE 2 (COM) and OpenDoc (CORBA).- Bridge between CORBA and DCOM.- Internet and Middleware.- Internet architectures.- Putting an application onto the Internet.- JAVA RMI and Java Beans.- The Java Language.- Distributed processing with Java.- Internet: Downloading and execution of applets.- Remote Method Invocation: Java RMI.- Java Beans and ActiveX.- Introduction to object technology.- The concept of an object.- Principal characteristics of object technology.- MethodF(: A Method for object-oriented analysis and design.- Specification phase.- Analysis phase.- Design phase.- Implementation phase.- Conclusion.- Choosing middleware.- The complete approach.