Middleware 2006 - Tutorial
Title: Design Trade-Offs
for Middleware
Presenter: Michi
Henning, Chief Scientist, ZeroC, Inc.
Date: November 28
Time: 1:30pm – 6pm
Description: This tutorial is
relevant to anyone with an interest in middleware such as CORBA, SOAP, .NET remoting, Java RMI, or DCE. The middleware area is currently
very much in flux, with CORBA and DCE getting dated, Java RMI and .NET being
limited to one particular language or operating system, respectively, and with
SOAP having as yet to deliver on the promise of ubiquitous middleware. Added to
the mix are various single-vendor alternatives, and it is difficult for
developers to make an informed choice about what technology to use. Attendees
of this workshop will learn much about the internals of middleware and the
fundamental design trade-offs that are common to all middleware platforms,
enabling them to better evaluate alternatives for suitability to a given set of
requirements.
Format: 4 hours, lecture
Bio: Michi
Henning (michi@zeroc.com) is Chief Scientist of ZeroC.
From 1995 to 2002, he worked on CORBA as a member of the Object Management
Group's Architecture Board and as an ORB implementer, consultant, and trainer.
With Steve Vinoski, he wrote "Advanced CORBA
Programming with C++" (Addison-Wesley, 1999), the definitive text in the
field. Since joining ZeroC, he has worked on the
design and implementation of Ice (ZeroC's
next-generation middleware) and in 2003 co-authored Distributed Programming
with Ice. He holds an honors degree in computer science from the
Registration: This tutorial is
open to all Middleware 2006 attendees without any additional costs.
Registration to the main conference or any of the workshops (including the
doctoral symposium) would be required and be sufficient to attend to this
tutorial.