• Introduction to Middleware provides technically oriented IT staff and software investors a Middleware overview including the history, background and rationale for it, the technical concepts involved, current directions in middleware and a discussion of the leading vendors offering middleware today.

Target Audience

• CIOs
• Software Architects
• Investors in Software

Agenda

• History & Background
  • Covers the evolution from batch computing through middleware as the underpinnings of Service Oriented Architecture.
• Technical Concepts
  • Covers technology concepts fundamental to Middleware including Distributed Computing, Data Shipping vs. Function Shipping vs. Logic Shipping, communication paradigms, management and more.
• Current Directions
  • What will happen to traditional Middleware? Will it be absorbed into the OS? The DBMS? Applications (e.g., SAP)? What effect will open source versions have? What about web services,  SOA, ESBs?
• Vendors: Offerings and Perspective
  • Discussion of various Middleware vendors including BEA, IBM, Microsoft, Oracle, SAP, HP, Sun and JBoss as well as an open source discussion regarding both JBoss and Apache Geronimo.

Duration

• 1/2 Day: Can be customized for specific needs

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