Middleware'98

Welcome to Middleware'98 and to one of England's most beautiful regions. In recent years the distributed systems community has witnessed a growth in the number of conferences, leading to difficulties in tracking the literature and a consequent loss of awareness of work done by others in this important field. The aim of Middleware'98 is to synthesise many of the smaller workshops and conferences in this area, bringing together research communities which were becoming fragmented. The conference has been designed to maximise the experience for attendees. This is reflected in the choice of a resort venue (rather than a big city) to ensure a strong focus on interaction with other distributed systems researchers. The programme format incorporates a question-and-answer panel in each session, enabling significant issues to be discussed in the context of related papers and presentations. The invited speakers and tutorials are intended to not only inform the attendees, but also to stimulate discussion and debate.

Autorentext
Prof. Dr. rer. nat. (habil.) Jochen Seitz ist Leiter des Fachgebiets Kommunikationsnetze am Institut für Informationstechnik der Technischen Universität Ilmenau.

Klappentext

This volume focuses on the design, implementation, deployment and evaluation of distributed systems platforms and architectures for future networked environments. Issues addresses in the text include: ORB architectures and engineering; event based systems; workflow environments; scalability in distributed systems platforms; availability and integrity; mobile objects; component architectures; type safety and security; web services; and application services. This book compiles the proceedings of Middleware '98, the IFIP International Conference on Distributed Systems Platforms and Open Distributed Processing. The conference was held in the Lake District, UK, in September 1998 and was sponsored by the International Federation for Information Processing (IFIP). This book represents an invaluable resource for researchers working on the state of the art in the field of distributed systems platforms and middleware.

Inhalt
Session 1: Workflow.- 1 A CORBA Compliant Transactional Workflow System for Internet Applications.- 2 A Generic Workflow Environment based on CORBA Business Objects.- Session 2: Scalability.- 3 A Scalable Middleware Solution for Advanced Wide-Area Web Services.- 4 A Gossip-Style Failure Detection Service.- 5 System Support for Scalable and Fault Tolerant Internet Services.- Session 3: Availability and Integrity.- 6 Highly Available Trading System: Experiments with CORBA.- 7 Integrity Management in GUARDS.- 8 The Realize Middleware for Replication and Resource Management.- Session 4: ORB Engineering.- 9 DIMMA A Multi-Media ORB.- 10 The Implementation of a High Performance ORB over Multiple Network Transports.- Session 5: ORB Architecture.- 11 Jonathan: an Open Distributed Processing Environment in Java.- 12 An Architecture for Next Generation Middleware.- 13 QuO's Runtime Support for Quality of Service in Distributed Objects.- Session 6: Components.- 14 Component Coordination in Middleware Systems.- 15 Architecturing and Configuring Distributed Application with Olan.- 16 A Framework for Systematic Synthesis of Transactional Middleware.- Session 7: Type Safety and Security.- 17 Secure Architectures.- 18 Improving Type-Safety in CORBA.- 19 Type Checking Stream Flow Endpoints.- Session 8: Mobile Objects.- 20 Mobile Java Objects.- 21 Javanaise: Distributed Shared Objects for Internet Cooperative Applications.- 22 Mole 3.0: A Middleware for Java-Based Mobile Software Agents.- Session 9: Web Series.- 23 Active Cache: Caching Dynamic Contents on the Web.- 24 Saperlipopette!: a Distributed Web Caching Systems Evaluation Tool.- 25 Experience With Top Gun Wingman: A Proxy-Based Graphical Web Browser for the 3Com PalmPilot.- Session 10: Events.- 26 Event-based DistributedWorkflow Execution with EVE.- 27 An Architecture to Support Storage and Retrieval of Events.- 28 Run-time Monitoring of Distributed Applications.- Index of Contributors.- Sponsors.