Middleware and its age
Recent JDJ's article starts with:
"Is middleware becoming commoditized, as Sun's Jonathan Schwartz contends? Or is it a continuing growth area, as "professional open source" advocate Marc Fleury, CEO of JBoss Inc., maintains?"
I totally agree with Marc. I believe, middleware just went to be good enough to make sense in variety of applications. But it is far, in fact very far, from being good, let alone to be at the full potenital. Architects and developers just start to realize how to organize middleware so it becomes a stable interconnected solution provider instead of disconnected islands of data encapsulation. I expect some revolutionizing concepts coming from this area in the near future - the way window systems revolutionized UI, I believe we are staying in front of the new way of organizing servers.
"Is middleware becoming commoditized, as Sun's Jonathan Schwartz contends? Or is it a continuing growth area, as "professional open source" advocate Marc Fleury, CEO of JBoss Inc., maintains?"
I totally agree with Marc. I believe, middleware just went to be good enough to make sense in variety of applications. But it is far, in fact very far, from being good, let alone to be at the full potenital. Architects and developers just start to realize how to organize middleware so it becomes a stable interconnected solution provider instead of disconnected islands of data encapsulation. I expect some revolutionizing concepts coming from this area in the near future - the way window systems revolutionized UI, I believe we are staying in front of the new way of organizing servers.
