Middleware has moved into the center stage of many new IT initiatives as organizations have begun to build applications following a new, multi-tier application model, with powerful middleware the essential component or "glue" to hold it all together and to facilitate application scalability and easier integration with legacy systems. As corporations are pushing the envelope of scalability, the use of middleware and the middleware products themselves are evolving and maturing at a rapid pace. These sessions focus on the state of middleware technology, on new application models that can be developed using middleware, and on practical usage of middleware in building an applications integration framework.
Max Dolgicer, Director
International Systems Group, Inc.
Tuesday, 11:00 a.m.-12:15 p.m.
Whether you are a software vendor or corporate developer, building either an enterprise foundation to enable distributed computing or large-scale distributed applications throughout your organization, you will be faced with the difficult task of understanding and selecting middleware technology. In fact, "right or wrong" middleware choices could mean success or failure of your applications. This session offers an in-depth assessment of the present and future of the middleware market, including why middleware quickly became the enabling foundation platform for enterprise client/server applications.
Gerhard Bayer, Director of Technology
Software AG
Tuesday, 3:00 p.m.
Enterprise middleware provides a reliable infrastructure for business critical applications, accessing transactions and data located anywhere, anyplace, anytime. As a result, middleware has been referred to as a "level playing platform", capable of supporting same services across heterogeneous operating systems. However, the wide-spread availability and platform insensitivity of the Internet and WWW, has made some people proclaim that the Internet is "the platform" and that middleware is dead. This session discusses:
John Mathon, Vice President
Tibco Software Corporation
Wednesday, 8:30 a.m.
Powerful publish/subscribe middleware matches publishers with subscribers and provides a powerful distribution mechanism which ensures that only information that is being subscribed to is delivered when subscribing applications become available. The Publish/subscribe model has a number of advantages over a traditional client/server model. This session introduces the concept of the publish/subscribe model, explaining the applicability of publish/subscribe to a wide range of business applications.
Peter Fischer, Senior Consultant
International Systems Group, Inc.
Wednesday, 9:30 a.m.
Componentization of software as objects and the ability to mix and match these objects from different vendors has enticed the software industry for many years. Distributed object computing promises to take these components and deploy them across the enterprise in a transparent manner. With distributed object models, such as CORBA and COM, this dream is becoming a reality. The INet extends these models to provide an inexpensive and efficient way to access corporate data from anywhere.
Paul Hessinger, Managing Director
Vision UnlimITed
Wednesday, 2:00 p.m.
A middleware mandate emerges from increasingly virtual linkages within enterprises and across the value chain from suppliers to businesses in many, if not all, vertical markets and ultimately to end customers. This presentation suggests that an architecture for an enterprise’s infrastructure will be a key to reliable and extensible connectivity and avoiding the seeming maze of connectivity "solutions."
Max Dolgicer, Director
International Systems Group, Inc.
Thursday, 8:30 a.m.
Increasingly, object-oriented middleware such as CORBA and DCOM are finding home in the most sophisticated and most demanding corporations to build reusable frameworks and new distributed business applications. Message Oriented Middleware (MOM) provides maximum flexibility by supporting different communication paradigms between applications. This session uses a real life case study to demonstrate how these two leading middleware technologies have been used to develop a universal application integration framework capable of "logically" connecting new and existing applications across a variety of heterogeneous platforms.
Jon Deutsch, Corporate Sales Director - Infrastructure Software and
Data Warehousing
Information Builders
Thursday, 2:30 p.m.
As network-centric computing replaces the traditional monolithic computing environment, the challenge of integrating widely diverse applications, operating systems, network protocols, databases and file systems, are as challenging as ever. A new middleware architecture has arisen to meet these requirements. This architecture consists of three layers: 1) Browser, or desktop interface; 2) Object Server, providing the middleware necessary to manage Web communications; and 3) Resource Layer, including existing databases and files, application logic, and business rules. This presentation describes the events which have led us to this architectural evolution, and provides examples of applications based on this approach.
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