Distributed Infrastructure Support for Electronic Commerce Applications The Springer International Series in Engineering and Computer Science

A middleware system (a.k.a. distributed computing infrastructure) constitutes a set of services that aim at facilitating the development of distributed applications in heterogeneous environments. The primary objectives of middleware systems are to foster application portability and distributed application component interoperability.

At least conceptually, the middleware layer is located below the application and above the operating system and network substrate. Distributed Infrastructure Support For E-Commerce And Distributed Applications is organized in three parts. The first part constitutes an overview, a more detailed motivation of the problem context, and a tutorial-like introduction to middleware systems.

The second part is comprised of a set of chapters that study solutions to leverage the trade-off between a transparent programming model and application-level enabled resource control. The third part of this book presents three detailed distributed application case studies and demonstrates how standard middleware platforms fail to adequately cope with resource control needs of the application designer in these three cases: 1.

An electronic commerce framework for software leasing over the World Wide Web; 2. A remote building energy management system that has been experimentally deployed on several building sites; 3. A wireless computing infrastructure for efficient data transfer to non-stationary mobile clients that have been experimentally validated.

Distributed Infrastructure Support For E-Commerce And Distributed Applications is designed for a professional audience composed of researchers and practitioners working in the fields of middleware systems, distributing systems, internet computing and software engineering. This book is also suitable as a secondary text for graduate-level students in computer science and engineering.