Book: Remoting Patterns

Markus Völter, Michael Kircher, Uwe Zdun Remoting Patterns - Foundations of Enterprise, Internet, and Realtime Distributed Object Middleware Wiley Series in Software Design Patterns ISBN: 0470856629, Wiley & Sons, Oct 2004

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Developing distributed applications, made simpler with the advent of distributed object middleware, succeeds best when it seamlessly integrates with the widely spread object-oriented and component-oriented paradigms used in today's applications. But extra requirements - performance, predictability, scalability - can increase complexity and the challenge of building robust distributed software. This is when details of the distributed object middleware suddenly become critical and must be understood thoroughly. And this is also when developers, consultants, and especially software architects, need to understand the inner workings of the middleware products they use - not just their APIs.

This book explains the internal structure and behaviour of distributed object middleware in an easily comprehensible form: patterns. Since practically all available distributed object middleware systems are built on the same set of patterns, understanding the patterns will provide developers with a thorough and deep understanding of how a particular middleware works. To illustrate the patterns, the book includes three technology projections for: CORBA, Web Services, and .NET Remoting,

The pattern language in this book addresses everything from basic and elementary aspects of lifecycle- and resource management to asynchronous invocations. The combination of patterns, their interactions, and the technology projections even enable you to create your own distributed object middleware, in case existing solutions fail to address your specific needs.