Next Generation Application Integration: From Simple Information to Web Services

Chapter Seven. Middleware Types and Application Integration: What Works Where?

In this chapter we take a much deeper dive into the world of middleware and look specifically at what types of middleware work for particular types of application integration problem domains.

This is a very important chapter because when architects attempt to solve application integration problems, the trouble they run into is the use of the wrong type of middleware. For example, distributed objects don't work well for problem domains that require a more information-oriented solution, and message-oriented middleware does not support service-oriented solutions. You'll understand the relationships between middleware and application integration solutions by the end of ...