Description
Book SynopsisA guide to middleware technologies, and their pivotal role in communications networks. It discusses the fields of Peer-to-Peer (P2P) and grid middleware detailing middleware platforms such as JXTA and the Globus middleware toolkit. It also shows how Middleware plays a significant role in mobile computing.
Trade Review"The book addresses telecommunications workers, developers, middleware researchers, software engineers, and software architects." (
IT Professional, July/August 2004)
Table of ContentsPreface.
List of Contributors.
Introduction.
1. Message-Oriented Middleware (E. Curry).
2. Adaptive and Reflective Middleware (E. Curry).
3. Transaction Middleware (S. Tai, et al.).
4. Peer-to-Peer Middleware (M. Junginger).
5. Grid Middleware (G. von Laszewski & K. Amin).
6. QoS-enabled Middleware (N. Wang, et al.).
7. Model Driven Middleware (A. Gokhale, et al.).
8. High Performance Middleware-Based Systems (S. Majumdar).
9. Concepts and Capabilities of Middleware Security (S. Demurjian, et al.).
10. Middleware for Scalable Data Dissemination (P. Chrysanthis, et al.).
11. Principles of Mobile Computing Middleware (C. Mascolo, et al.).
12. Application of Middleware Technologies to Mobile Enterprise Information Services (G. Wang, et al.).
13. Middleware for Location-based Services: Design and Implementation Issues (P. Langendörfer, et al.).
14. QoS-enabled Middleware for MPEG Video Streaming (K. Leung, et al.).
15. Middleware for Smart Cards (H. Vogt, et al.).
16. Application-Oriented Middleware for E-Commerce (J. Martínez, et al.).
17. Real-time CORBA Middleware (A. Krishna, et al.).
18. Middleware Support for Fault Tolerance (D. Szentiványi & S. Nadjm-Tehrani).
Index.
