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July 6, 1998

Middleware Services Required For System Integration

Illustration by John Bleck Connectivity: Transporting messages between computing resources, reconciling network and protocol differences

Data flow: Orchestrating the flow of data between integrated resources and connecting them into a business process

Format: Maintaining descriptions of information structure and meaning, such as metadata describing the semantics of the information content in an application

Interaction: Supporting the types of message exchange--such as request/reply, store and forward, and publish and subscribe--used in resource relationships

Interface: Accommodating the many ways system resources are invoked

Network: Adding quality-of-service options, such as security and queuing, to message delivery

Transformation: Resolving data-coding differences in applications and databases, such as date layouts

Data: Active Software

Illustration by John Bleck

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