The Common Instrument Middleware Architecture (CIMA) project, supported by the NSF Middleware Initiative, aims at making scientific instruments and sensors remotely accessible by ...
Hao Yin, Donald F. McMullen, Mehmet A. Nacar, Marl...
of abstractions a middleware system makes available to applications, they figure prominently in determining the breadth and variety of application integration that the middleware s...
Pervasive context-aware software is an emerging kind of application. Smart personal digital assistants and RFID-based location sensing software are two examples. Many of these sys...
ion. riented language features, such as abstract classes, inheritance, dynamic binding, and parameterized types. Middleware, such as object-oriented frameworks for host infrastruct...
Connectors and connector wrappers explicitly specify the protocol of interaction among components and afford the reusable application of extra-functional behaviors, such as reliabi...