Middleware for software leasing over the Internet
Hans‐Arno Jacobsen, Oliver Günther · 1999
MMM (Middleware for Method Management) is an infrastructure for managing the deployment, integration, distribution, and use of application services via the World Wide Web. Application services may range from a simple database access to a fully edged application package. MMM propagates a software leasing paradigm, as opposed to the classical software licensing model. Applications reside and execute on the software provider's platforms, managed through the MMM middleware. Users interact with the application services through a standard Internet browser, not requiring any additional software. This relieves user from software installation, maintenance, and upgrading overhead, while always oering the most recent software release. The MMM client component oers users a virtual le space, application service composition functions, execution support, and visualization features. These functions are all available through an Internet browser. The MMM implementation is based on standard Web techn...