Chapter 6: Introduction to a Middleware Framework

Vincent Olive, A. Vareille, France T l com R&D,

France

1 Introduction

This paper is an introduction to middleware frameworks for distributed systems. The aim is not to cover all the scope because a complete book would not be sufficient for that purpose, but to explain some of the recent architectures still considered as new. These are currently not often deployed but they are already promising many success stories in the near future.