Understanding Applications, Middleware, and Services

Before the important aspects of application optimization can be discussed, it is important to define what is meant by an application. Application is a term that is very common in the IT industry. Most IT personnel could easily define it. However, it can mean different things to different people. The same goes for middleware. And, service can be equally confusing if it is not properly defined.

What Is an Application?

As the title of this chapter states, the content focuses on application optimization. However, this chapter also focuses on delivering rapid service deployment. Service, and its relationship to applications, is defined in the following section. However, before reviewing that information, ...

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