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.
CHAPTER 1 The Problem
CHAPTER 2 The Emergence of Standard Middleware
CHAPTER 3 Objects, Components, and the Web
CHAPTER 4 Web Services
CHAPTER 5 A Technical Summary of Middleware
CHAPTER 6 Using Middleware to Build Distributed
Applications
CHAPTER 7 Resiliency
CHAPTER 8 Performance and Scalability
CHAPTER 9 Systems Management
CHAPTER 10 Security
CHAPTER 11 Application Design and IT Architecture
CHAPTER 12 Implementing Business Processes
CHAPTER 13 Integration Design
CHAPTER 14 Information Access and Information Accuracy
CHAPTER 15 Changing and Integrating Applications
CHAPTER 16 Building an IT Architecture