1st Edition

Introduction to Middleware Web Services, Object Components, and Cloud Computing

By Letha Hughes Etzkorn Copyright 2017
    688 Pages
    by Chapman & Hall

    688 Pages 169 B/W Illustrations
    by Chapman & Hall

    688 Pages 169 B/W Illustrations
    by Chapman & Hall

    "A stereotype of computer science textbooks is that they are dry, boring, and sometimes even intimidating. As a result, they turn students’ interests off from the subject matter instead of enticing them into it. This textbook is the opposite of such a stereotype. The author presents the subject matter in a refreshing story-telling style and aims to bring the Internet-generation of students closer to her stories." 



    --Yingcai Xiao, The University of Akron



    Introduction to Middleware: Web Services, Object Components, and Cloud Computing provides a comparison of different middleware technologies and the overarching middleware concepts they are based on. The various major paradigms of middleware are introduced and their pros and cons are discussed. This includes modern cloud interfaces, including the utility of Service Oriented Architectures. The text discusses pros and cons of RESTful vs. non-RESTful web services, and also compares these to older but still heavily used distributed object/component middleware. The text guides readers to select an appropriate middleware technology to use for any given task, and to learn new middleware technologies as they appear over time without being greatly overwhelmed by any new concept.



    The book begins with an introduction to different distributed computing paradigms, and a review of the different kinds of architectures, architectural styles/patterns, and properties that various researchers have used in the past to examine distributed applications and determine the quality of distributed applications. Then it includes appropriate background material in networking and the web, security, and encoding necessary to understand detailed discussion in this area. The major middleware paradigms are compared, and a comparison methodology is developed. Readers will learn how to select a paradigm and technology for a particular task, after reading this text.



    Detailed middleware technology review sections allow students or industry practitioners working to expand their knowledge to achieve practical skills based on real projects so as to become well-functional in that technology in industry. Major technologies examined include: RESTful web services (RESTful cloud interfaces such as OpenStack, AWS EC2 interface, CloudStack; AJAX, JAX-RS, ASP.NET MVC and ASP.NET Core), non-RESTful (SOAP and WSDL-based) web services (JAX-WS, Windows Communication Foundation), distributed objects/ components (Enterprise Java Beans, .NET Remoting, CORBA).





    The book presents two projects that can be used to illustrate the practical use of middleware, and provides implementations of these projects over different technologies.





    This versatile and class-tested textbook is suitable (depending on chapters selected) for undergraduate or first-year graduate courses on client server architectures, middleware, and cloud computing, web services, and web programming.



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    Preface



    Author





     



    SECTION I The Different Paradigms



    Chapter 1 Introduction



    Chapter 2 Software Architectural Styles/Patterns for Middleware





     



    SECTION II Enabling Technologies for Middleware



    Chapter 3 Introduction to Internet Technologies



    Chapter 4 Introduction to World Wide Web Technologies



    Chapter 5 Security Basics



    Chapter 6 Microsoft Technologies Basics



    Chapter 7 Cloud Technologies Basics





     



    SECTION III Middleware Using Distributed Object-Oriented Components



    Chapter 8 Distributed Object-Oriented Components





     



    SECTION IV Middleware Using Web Services



    Chapter 9 Web Services Architectures



    Chapter 10 Non-RESTful Web Services



    Chapter 11 RESTful Web Services



    Chapter 12 RESTful Web Services in .NET





     



    SECTION V Middleware for the Cloud



    Chapter 13 Introduction to the Cloud and Introduction to the OpenStack Cloud



    Chapter 14 Introduction to Amazon Web Services and Introduction to the CloudStack Cloud





     



    SECTION VI Message-Oriented Middleware



    Chapter 15 Introduction to Message-Oriented Middleware





     



    SECTION VII Comparison of Middlewares



    Chapter 16 Introduction to Comparing Middlewares





     



    Index

    Biography

    Letha Hughes Etzkorn is a Professor of Computer Science at the University of Alabama, Huntsville.