This book gives an overview of the technologies used for enterprise application integration. It ventures to make your understanding easier by taking you from what you know to what you need to know. It covers all the aspects of middleware. It introduces its readers to basic concepts of middleware, state-of-art middleware technologies and middleware services. Sample programs to work on different object middleware technologies like RMI, CORBA, DCOM and EJB are also provided in this book. This book is beneficial for all IT professionals and students.

About the Author

G. Sudha Sadasivam is working as a Professor in Department of Computer Science and Engineering in PSG College of Technology, Coimbatore. Her areas of interest include Distributed Systems, Distributed Object Technology and Grid and Cloud Computing. She has completed her Masters in Computer Science and Engineering and PhD from PSG College of Technology, Coimbatore. Also, she has a teaching experience of over 15 years and industry experience of 2 years. She has published 20 papers in referred journals and 32 papers in national and international conferences. Dr Sadasivam has coordinated two AICTE-RPS projects in Distributed and Grid Computing areas. She is also the coordinator for PSG-Yahoo Research on Grid and Cloud computing. She has authored books on Distributed Component Architecture, Component Based Technology, Object Oriented Analysis and Design and Compiler Design. Radha Shankarmani is currently working as an Assistant Professor at the Department of Information Technology, Sardar Patel Institute of Technology, Mumbai. She is also presently pursuing her Doctorate from JNTU, Hyderabad. Her areas of interest include Software Engineering, Software Testing, Databases, Data Warehousing and Mining, Computer Simulation and Modeling, Management Information System and SOA. Prof Shankarmani holds a Masters degree in Computer Science and Engineering from NIT, Trichy and Bachelors degree from PSG College of Technology in Electronics and Communication Engineering. Having more than 14 years of teaching experience and 4 years of industry experience, she has held designations such as Programmer, Software Engineer and Manager. She did her sabbaticals for two months in Infosys, Pune in 2005 and has published a number of papers in National, International conferences and International journal.

Table of Contents:
• Syllabus Map • Introduction to Distributed Object Technology • Introduction to Middleware Technologies • EJB Architecture • EJB Applications • CORBA • Advanced CORBA • COM and .NET • SOA Fundamental • Web Services Technologies • Programming Examples in RMI, COM and CORBA • Appendix • Frequently Asked Questions