"A stereotype of computer science textbooks is that they are dry,
boring, and sometimes even intimidating. As a result, they turn
students' interests off from the subject matter instead of enticing
them into it. This textbook is the opposite of such a stereotype.
The author presents the subject matter in a refreshing
story-telling style and aims to bring the Internet-generation of
students closer to her stories." --Yingcai Xiao, The University of
Akron Introduction to Middleware: Web Services, Object Components,
and Cloud Computing provides a comparison of different middleware
technologies and the overarching middleware concepts they are based
on. The various major paradigms of middleware are introduced and
their pros and cons are discussed. This includes modern cloud
interfaces, including the utility of Service Oriented
Architectures. The text discusses pros and cons of RESTful vs.
non-RESTful web services, and also compares these to older but
still heavily used distributed object/component middleware. The
text guides readers to select an appropriate middleware technology
to use for any given task, and to learn new middleware technologies
as they appear over time without being greatly overwhelmed by any
new concept. The book begins with an introduction to different
distributed computing paradigms, and a review of the different
kinds of architectures, architectural styles/patterns, and
properties that various researchers have used in the past to
examine distributed applications and determine the quality of
distributed applications. Then it includes appropriate background
material in networking and the web, security, and encoding
necessary to understand detailed discussion in this area. The major
middleware paradigms are compared, and a comparison methodology is
developed. Readers will learn how to select a paradigm and
technology for a particular task, after reading this text. Detailed
middleware technology review sections allow students or industry
practitioners working to expand their knowledge to achieve
practical skills based on real projects so as to become
well-functional in that technology in industry. Major technologies
examined include: RESTful web services (RESTful cloud interfaces
such as OpenStack, AWS EC2 interface, CloudStack; AJAX, JAX-RS,
ASP.NET MVC and ASP.NET Core), non-RESTful (SOAP and WSDL-based)
web services (JAX-WS, Windows Communication Foundation),
distributed objects/ components (Enterprise Java Beans, .NET
Remoting, CORBA). The book presents two projects that can be used
to illustrate the practical use of middleware, and provides
implementations of these projects over different technologies. This
versatile and class-tested textbook is suitable (depending on
chapters selected) for undergraduate or first-year graduate courses
on client server architectures, middleware, and cloud computing,
web services, and web programming.
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