What's in the Middle?

Abstract

Enterprise Middleware has the power to help you quickly develop, deploy and manage critical on-line transaction processing and client/server applications to take advantage more easily of new business opportunities and to manage, change or extend your business — but first you need to know what to look for in the increasingly diverse range of technology products. This paper discusses the issues that a programme in BT should consider when selecting middleware products to deploy with BT systems. The paper draws upon the experiences gained within the Client/Server Evolution Laboratory (CSLab), part of in Ipswich Software Engineering Centre's (ISEC's) Systems and Software Strategy Unit, with particular emphasis on the Object Management Group's Common Object Request Broker Architecture (CORBA), Distributed Computing Environment and Java.