IT Architectures and Middleware: Strategies for Building Large, Integrated Systems

by Chris Britton, Peter Bye

The challenges of designing, building, and maintaining large-scale, distributed enterprise systems are truly daunting. Written by and for IT professionals, IT Architectures and Middleware, Second Edition, will help you rise above the conflicts of new business objectives, new technologies, and vendor wars, allowing you to think clearly and productively about the particular challenges you face. This book focuses on the essential principles and priorities of system design and emphasizes the new requirements emerging from the rise of e-commerce and distributed, integrated systems. It offers a concise overview of middleware technology alternatives and distributed systems. Numerous increasingly complex examples are incorporated throughout, and the book concludes with some short case studies. Topics covered In this new edition, with updates throughout, coverage has been expanded to

Genres: Technology

368 pages, Paperback

First published December 6, 2000

Reviews

[Conlon Michael · Rating 4 out of 5]

At the time (turn of the century), IT executives were struggling with the need for large systems that contained reasubale components, such as sign-on, identity management, shopping carts, and check-out.

In the iPhone universe, this became a "solved Problem" as one used Apple's toolkit -- ditto for Goggle and others.

The book was a middling effort to describe a probem that would be solved.

[Ajita Gupta · Rating 1 out of 5]

Unintelligible. Unsuitable for beginners.

[Sridhar Rajendiran]

good