Course 1

Introduction

What does Traditional Middleware Mean ?

Motivations

make development faster and easier

to assist distributed software

promoting software reuse

A bridge between OS and application [Krakoviak]

High level network abstractions matching the application computational model [Issarny]

First Definitions

Middleware Taxonomies

W. Emmerich Taxonomy (2000)
D.E. Baken (2001)
R. E. Schantz and D. C. Schmidt Taxonomy (2002)

Transactional Middleware

Tuplespace-based Middleware

Message-oriented Middleware

Remote procedure Calls Middleware

Object oriented Middleware

Component oriented Middleware

Service-oriented Middleware

Exercices

References

A Perspective on the Future of Middleware-based Software Engineering. V. Issarny, M. Caporuscio, N. Georgantas. In Future of Software Engineering 2007 (FOSE) at ICSE (International Conference on Software Engineering). L. Briand and A. Wolf editors, IEEE-CS Press. 2007. link

E-book: Middleware Architecture with Patterns and Frameworks, Prof. Sacha Krakowiak

What does Ubiquitous Computing Mean ?

Exercices

videos

The following scenes together are a complete movie about ubiquitous computing at Xerox PARC

References

GATECH Course about Ubiquitous computing course

What does Middleware for Ubiquitous Computing Mean ?

New motivations

High level device and ressource abstractions matching the application computational model
device and ressource abstraction is often transparency in multiple access
Distribution with or without nertwork …

Example in distributed systems

Example in OS and Virtual Machine

Example in HMI

application computational model : widgets
low level device drivers : mouse and screen
Middleware :

Example in Robotics

Trends on the future of Middleware

From Mobility to Ubiquity

New Requirements

Exercices

Projets de recherche :

OpenCOM and ReMMoC Web Page, Paul Grace and Gordon S. Blair - link

ARLES Project-Team, V. Issarny, link

Project AMAZONES, Citi Lab, INSA Lyon, Frenot Stéphane, Le Mouel Frédéric link