IT Architectures and Middleware or New England Girlhood

IT Architectures and Middleware: Strategies for Building Large, Integrated Systems

Author: Chris Britton

The challenges of designing, building, and maintaining large-scale, distributed enterprise systems are truly daunting. Written by and for IT professionals, IT Architectures and Middleware, Second Edition, will help you rise above the conflicts of new business objectives, new technologies, and vendor wars, allowing you to think clearly and productively about the particular challenges you face.

This book focuses on the essential principles and priorities of system design and emphasizes the new requirements emerging from the rise of e-commerce and distributed, integrated systems. It offers a concise overview of middleware technology alternatives and distributed systems. Numerous increasingly complex examples are incorporated throughout, and the book concludes with some short case studies.

Topics covered include:

• Middleware technology review


• Key principles of distributed systems: resiliency, performance and scalability, security, and systems management


• Information access requirements and data consistency


• Application integration design


• Recasting existing applications as services

In this new edition, with updates throughout, coverage has been expanded to include:

• Service-oriented architecture concepts


• Web services and .NET technology


• A more structured approach to system integration design

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Focuses on the principles and priorities of enterprise systems design, emphasizing the new requirements brought by e-commerce and distributed, integrated systems. Britton, who works for Unisys, discusses middleware technology alternatives, resiliency, performance and scalability, security, systems management, information access and accuracy, and creation of a new presentation layer for existing applications. Annotation c. Book News, Inc., Portland, OR (booknews.com)

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IT Architecture And Middleware: Strategies For Building Large, Integrated Systems, presents the essential principles and priorities of system design, emphasizing the new requirements brought about by the rise of e-commerce and distributed, integrated systems. IT professional Christ Britton offers a concise overview of middleware technology alternatives and distributed systems as he covers such topics as information access requirements and data consistency, creation of a new presentation layer for existing applications, application integration, and component architectures. Carl Britton's IT Architecture And Middleware is a highly recommended addition to the growing body of information technology literature and IT architecture reference collections.

Table of Contents:

1	The problem	1
2	The emergence of standard middleware	17
3	Objects, components, and the Web	39
4	Web services	59
5	A technical summary of middleware	77
6	Using middleware to build distributed applications	99
7	Resiliency	123
8	Performance and scalability	143
9	Systems management	169
10	Security	187
11	Application design and IT architecture	205
12	Implementing business processes	223
13	Integration design	241
14	Information access and information accuracy	257
15	Changing and integrating applications	277
16	Building an IT architecture	297

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New England Girlhood: Outlined from Memory

Author: Lucy Larcom

Arriving in Lowell, Massachusetts, in the 1830s after the death of her shipmaster father, the eleven-year-old Lucy Larcom went to work in a textile mill to help her family make ends meet. Originally published in 1889, her autobiography offers glimpses of the early years of the American factory system as well as of the social influences on her development. It remains an important and illuminating document of the Industrial Revolution and nineteenth-century cultural history.