Distributed Systems Architecture - Puder, Arno (San Francisco State University, California, U.S.A.) a Roemer, Kay (ETH, Zurich (Swiss Federal Institute of Technology), Switzerland) a Pilhofer, Frank (Mercury Computer Systems, Inc., Chelmsford, Massachusetts, U.S.A.)

Middleware is the bridge that connects distributed applications across different physical locations, with different hardware platforms, network technologies, operating systems, and programming languages. This book describes middleware from two perspectives: the viewpoint of the systems programmer and the viewpoint of the applications programmer.