Distributed Systems Architecture: A Middleware Approach

This book looks at middleware from two different perspectives, from the viewpoint of the systems programmer and from the viewpoint of the applications programmer. It focuses on the use of open source solutions for creating middleware and the tools for developing distributed applications. The design principles of middleware presented are universal and apply to all middleware platforms, including CORBA and Web Services. The authors have created an open-source implementation of CORBA, called MICO, which is freely available on the web. MICO is one of the most successful of all open source projects, and is widely used by demanding companies and institutions and has also been adopted by many in the Linux community.