Table of Contents

Preface.

List of Contributors.

Introduction.

1. Message-Oriented Middleware (E. Curry).

2. Adaptive and Reflective Middleware (E. Curry).

3. Transaction Middleware (S. Tai, et al.).

4. Peer-to-Peer Middleware (M. Junginger).

5. Grid Middleware (G. von Laszewski & K. Amin).

6. QoS-enabled Middleware (N. Wang, et al.).

7. Model Driven Middleware (A. Gokhale, et al.).

8. High Performance Middleware-Based Systems (S. Majumdar).

9. Concepts and Capabilities of Middleware Security (S. Demurjian, et al.).

10. Middleware for Scalable Data Dissemination (P. Chrysanthis, et al.).

11. Principles of Mobile Computing Middleware (C. Mascolo, et al.).

12. Application of Middleware Technologies to Mobile Enterprise Information Services (G. Wang, et al.).

13. Middleware for Location-based Services: Design and Implementation Issues (P. Langendörfer, et al.).

14. QoS-enabled Middleware for MPEG Video Streaming (K. Leung, et al.).

15. Middleware for Smart Cards (H. Vogt, et al.).

16. Application-Oriented Middleware for E-Commerce (J. Martínez, et al.).

17. Real-time CORBA Middleware (A. Krishna, et al.).

18. Middleware Support for Fault Tolerance (D. Szentiványi & S. Nadjm-Tehrani).

Index.

About the Author

Qusay H. Mahmoud is an independent contractor for Sun Microsystems. He has written several articles for the Java Developer Connection that cover J2ME, including the MIDP and the CLDC APIs. He has also presented tutorials on developing wireless applications at a number of international conferences worldwide.

Reviews

"The book addresses telecommunications workers, developers, middleware researchers, software engineers, and software architects." (IT Professional, July/August 2004)