IT Architectures and Middleware

Strategies for Building Large, Integrated Systems

Chris Britton

296 pages, parution le 01/12/2000

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Résumé

The challenges of designing, building, and maintaining large-scale, distributed enterprise systems are truly daunting. Written for all IT professionals, IT Architectures and Middleware will help you rise above the obscuring conflicts of new business objectives, new technologies, and vendor wars so that you can think clearly and productively about the challenges you face.

IT Architectures and Middleware focuses on the essential principles and priorities of system design and emphasizes the new requirements brought to the fore by the rise of e-commerce and distributed, integrated systems. It offers a concise overview of middleware technology alternatives and distributed systems. Numerous increasingly complex examples are incorporated throughout, and the book concludes with guidelines on the practice of IT architecture.

Specific topics covered include:

Middleware technology, covering Distributed Transaction Processing, Message Queuing, CORBA, COM+ and EJB
Key principles of distributed systems: resiliency, performance and scalability, security, and systems management
Information access requirements and data consistency
Creation of a new presentation layer for existing applications
Application integration
Component architectures

Once you get your mind around the concepts, principles, and alternatives discussed in IT Architectures and Middleware, you can proceed with greater confidence to design complex enterprise systems.

Contents

Chapter 1: The Nature of the Problem
Chapter 2: A Short History of Middleware Technology--From the Stone Age to Message Queuing
Chapter 3: A Short History of Middleware Technology--Object Middleware
Chapter 4: A Short History of Middleware Technology--Components and the Web
Chapter 5: Middleware Classification and Middleware Architectures
Chapter 6: What Is Middleware For?
Chapter 7: Resiliency
Chapter 8: Performance and Scalability
Chapter 9: Security and Systems Management
Chapter 10: Implementation Design and Components
Chapter 11: Implementing Business Processes
Chapter 12: Information Access and Information Accuracy
Chapter 13: Change--Integration
Chapter 14: Change--Flexibility
Chapter 15: Building an IT Architecture

L'auteur - Chris Britton

Chris Britton is a long-time Unisys (formerly Burroughs) IT professional. For the last twenty-five years he has held positions in programming, technical support, system software design, program management, technical consultancy, and marketing. He is a regular speaker and seminar leader at Unisys conferences. His current focus is middleware and IT architectures. Having been in the profession for many years, Mr. Britton has a unique long-term perspective on the past and future of IT systems.

Caractéristiques techniques

	PAPIER
Éditeur(s)	Addison Wesley
Auteur(s)	Chris Britton
Parution	01/12/2000
Nb. de pages	296
Format	15,5 x 23,5
Couverture	Broché
Poids	430g
Intérieur	Noir et Blanc
EAN13	9780201709070