The AAA Agent-based Message Oriented Middleware
Noël De Palma · 2001
The past years have witnessed the decentralisation of the computing resources within most of the organisations. Reasons are numerous but the main one is the rise of small, powerful and affordable computers. As a result, the computing environment has become more and more distributed and heterogeneous while departments or even end-users have developed very efficient solutions for their particular needs. Consequently, interoperability concerns with the rest of the organisation global computing system have not been taken into account. From the organisation point of view, reducing the cost of software development is a major concern, thus leading to tremendous efforts on the integration and reuse of software components. One needs to address how the geographically spread applications can inter-operate, forming clusters of distributed applications. So the biggest challenge is to develop software that connects legacy components over the network in an inexpensive and flexible way to meet evolving requirements.