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The State of Middleware

Java Messaging, adapters gain momentum

By SD Times News Team

January 15, 2002 — (Page 1 of 9)
By Andrew Binstock

Messaging middleware has undergone a stunning transformation in perception during the past five years. In the mid-1990s, middleware was still viewed very much as the province of mainframe shops that needed a plumbing layer to provide messaging between the back-room big iron and front-end applications.

This perception was furthered by the dominant role of IBM Corp.'s MQSeries middleware, which undeniably started out as a mainframe messaging layer. With the advent of Web technologies, companies discovered that the most significant impact on their enterprise infrastructure was the abrupt and radical shift to distributed architectures. The once-standard client/server model of multiple clients feeding into a business-logic server that spoke with several back-end databases was completely shattered.

In its place, a legion of dedicated, stand-alone servers took over transaction processing as a series of disjointed activities. For example, the modern enterprise with a Web presence now must support Web servers, firewalls, authentication and encryption servers, application servers, database servers and perhaps EAI servers and ERP systems. To these may well be added directory servers, WAP servers, file servers and more. The bottom line is that enterprises today are forced to deal with moving data at high speeds among a widely distributed set of servers that need to understand one another's data. Enter messaging middleware.

Suddenly, after years of rendering rock-solid service in quiet obscurity, middleware is hot and can be divided roughly into two camps: Java-based middleware and everything else.

JMS: COMING ON STRONG As of last year, the big news was the impending widespread adoption of the Java Message Service (JMS), which was expected to drive down prices as various vendors started shipping competing implementations. In addition, JMS would do away with the single biggest problem in messaging middleware: its tendency to lock customer sites into one product's API. Customers who chose one vendor's solution were locked into that product because the customers' applications all had been rewritten to use the middleware APIs. By being forced to standardize on the JMS APIs, middleware vendors would now compete purely on implementation, and dissatisfied customers could with some effort swap in a better product without having to change their codebases.

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