"January 2, 2006—Few areas of technology underwent greater advances in 2005 than middleware. And 2006 looks as if it'll be no different. Between new architectures, maturing standards, and innovative technologies, the dream of integration within and without the enterprise is becoming a reality. Even better, it does not require the rip-and-replace approach of the past."
"JavaSpaces offer loosely coupled communication with the paradigm of distributed shared memory (called the "space"). By writing objects (data structures such as trees or lists) into local memory (without direct network calls), the application hands over to the space all of the bothersome issues of distribution. The objects are also replicated to other machines that showed interest in these objects. In this way, a shared, in-memory communication- and coordination-context system is created that offers stateful transaction processing and represents a common view entity for all participants. JavaSpace communication is decoupled in terms of time, space, and reference (see [Ang02]). The only shared reference is created through logical namespaces that define so-called distributed data structures (see [Free99])."
"In April, Sun published a document on the details of support offered by Sun middleware for system virtualization products and technologies. Listed are the virtualization platforms and guest operating systems that are supported by Sun."
"Scalable multitenancy is an important requirement for Web-delivered (SaaS) solutions. However, building multitenant solutions requires addressing several technical challenges. Using IBM middleware, solution developers and service providers can build and deploy scalable, customizable, manageable, and cost-effective multitenant solutions. This series of articles presents a few relevant IBM middleware features and techniques, and describes how to apply them to address the above technical challenges. Stay tuned!"
