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I’m not really a great enthusiast for drawing strong analogies between the role of a software architect and that of a traditional building architect. There are similarities, but also lots of profound differences. But let’s ignore those differences for a second, in order to illustrate the role of middleware in software architecture.
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The following paper discusses of issues: J. Baragry and K. Reed. Why We Need a Different View of Software Architecture. The Working IEEE/IFIP Conference on Software Architecture (WICSA), Amsterdam, The Netherlands, 2001.
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Common Object Request Broker Architecture.
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MOM can also be simply implemented in a point-to-point fashion without a centralized message queue server. In this style of implementation, ‘send’ and ‘receive’ queues are maintained on the communicating systems themselves.
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An application that needs to receive messages in the order they are sent is not suitable for operating in this a clustering mode.
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And the wide area network doesn’t support multicast.
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The platform was known as Java 2 Platform, Enterprise Edition or J2EE until the name was changed to Java EE in version 5.
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Specifically, the annotation contains a mappedName element that specifies the JNDI name of the JMS queue where messages are received from.
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Gorton, I. (2011). An Introduction to Middleware Architectures and Technologies. In: Essential Software Architecture. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-19176-3_4
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