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Middleware Technologies: Compiled By: Thomas M. Cosley

Middleware is software that allows processes running on different machines to communicate. There are four main types: transaction processing monitors, remote procedure calls (RPC), message-oriented middleware (MOM), and object request brokers (ORB). RPCs allow programs to be distributed across platforms by hiding operating system and network details and using stubs to enable client-server communication. MOM provides asynchronous messaging between clients and servers by queueing messages when processes are busy or disconnected. ORBs allow communication between remote objects across machines, software, and vendors.

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Middleware Technologies: Compiled By: Thomas M. Cosley

Middleware is software that allows processes running on different machines to communicate. There are four main types: transaction processing monitors, remote procedure calls (RPC), message-oriented middleware (MOM), and object request brokers (ORB). RPCs allow programs to be distributed across platforms by hiding operating system and network details and using stubs to enable client-server communication. MOM provides asynchronous messaging between clients and servers by queueing messages when processes are busy or disconnected. ORBs allow communication between remote objects across machines, software, and vendors.

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Middleware Technologies

compiled by:
Thomas M. Cosley

Introduction
Middleware is connectivity software that
provides a mechanism for processes to
interact with other processes running on
multiple networked machines.
Middleware Application Programming
Interfaces provide a more functional set of
capabilities than the OS and network
services provide on their own.

Middleware Architecture
Application

Application

APIs
Middleware (Distributed Systems Services)

Platform Interface

Platform Interface

Platform
OS

Platform
OS

Network Interface

Network Interface

Types of Middleware
There are four basic types of middleware
Transaction Processing Monitor (TP)
Remote Procedure Call (RPC)
Message-Oriented Middleware (MOM)
Object Request Broker (ORB)

Transaction Processing (TP)


TP can provide the following
control transaction applications
provide business logic/rules
database updates

Transaction Processing
Architecture
Processing
Routines

Transaction
Requests

Client

TP Monitor

Remote Procedure Call (RPC)


RPC is a client/server mechanism that
allows the program to be distributed across
multiple platforms.
RPCs reduce the complexity of a system
that spans multiple operating systems and
network protocols by hiding OS and
network interface details from the
programmer.

Remote Procedure Call (contd)


RPCs are usually implemented by:
proprietary products
proprietary development tools that create client
server stubs

Most RPC implementations use a


synchronous (call/wait) protocol to
communicate between client and server.

RPC Architecture

Client
App

RPC
STUB

T
R
A
N
S
P
O
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T

N
E
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W
O
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K

Application Specific
procedure invocations
and returns

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P
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Server
App

RPC
STUB

Message Oriented Middleware


(MOM)
Message-oriented middleware
functionality similar to RPC
provides asynchronous communication
between client and server applications by
queueing messages temporarily when one or
the other is busy or not connected.

MOM Architecture

Client
App

MOM
With
message
queue

T
R
A
N
S
P
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T

N
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K

Application specific
proprietary messages

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K

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P
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MOM
With
message
queue

Server
App

Object Request Broker (ORB)


ORBs overcome; machine, software and
vendors are no boundaries for the ORB.
Major functionality includes:
interface definition
location and activation of remote objects
communication between clients and objects

ORB Architecture

Request
Service

activate
Service

Establish
connection

Client

communicate

Remote Service
(object)

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