Research Advances in Middleware for Distributed Systems: State of the Art
Richard E. Schantz, Douglas C. Schmidt · 2002
Two fundamental trends influence the way we conceive and construct new computing and information systems. The first is that information technology of all forms is becoming highly commoditized i.e ., hardware and software artifacts are getting faster, cheaper, and better at a relatively predictable rate. The second is the growing acceptance of a network-centric paradigm , where distributed applications with a range of quality of service (QoS) needs are constructed by integrating separate components connected by various forms of communication services. The nature of these interconnections can range from very small and tightly coupled systems, such as avionics mission computing systems, to very large and loosely coupled systems, such as global telecommunications systems and so-called “grid” computing. These keywords were added by machine and not by the authors. This process is experimental and the keywords may be updated as the learning algorithm improves.