Information Systems and the level of integration reflects an enterprise, a department, and the whole level of national construction.Face of complex online world, middleware has become a tool for comprehensive integration of information systems.
Middleware Overview
Information Systems and the level of integration reflects an enterprise, a department, and the whole level of national construction.Face of complex online world, middleware has become a tool for comprehensive integration of information systems.
Following the operating system, middleware and database management system with the network after the rise and development of a new infrastructure software, can be regarded as the nodes in the network operating systems, network applications under a layer of support software.
Compared with stand-alone applications, the problems faced by network application is open, evolution, distribution, autonomy and heterogeneity.As a support network applications, middleware, must support the demand and change, to adapt to the online world and its applications development and changes in the distribution network throughout the autonomous, heterogeneous information systems effectively integrated into an integrated system.
Computer information systems is the use of computer acquisition, storage, processing, transmission and management of all types of information, and provide interactive information services computer application system, is a computer hardware, software and related organizations from the application of the integration of personssystem.The information systems are located in various parts of the Internet.
To support a comprehensive integrated information system, a new generation of distributed object middleware technologies commonly used, and the total soft
Line increases the overall structure of software component, the object agent, message broker, adapters and wrappers and other mechanisms, and information systems around the basic structure of the infrastructure foundation built on top of middleware, application software and thus further the resource layer,build the business layer and presentation layer application middleware, specific applications for establishment of the final field of application framework (or platform) to support the full range of comprehensive integrated information system.
Middleware is the second operating system, database management system, with the development of network technology and applications, deepening a basic software.Middleware can be divided based middleware, application middleware and application framework for three types of areas.Among them, the application integration middleware are data resources, application resources, integration, business process integration, portal integration middleware.
Three key middleware market
First, the middleware market in China in 2007, the traditional single-function middleware such as security middleware, transaction middleware product to shrink.
With the deepening of enterprise information, the traditional single-function middleware gradually integrated enterprise customers can not meet the complex business needs.Features provide a complete integrated middleware products, has become an inevitable requirement.Such as the commonly used Java application server platform products, the majority has integrated traditional middleware features such as transaction transaction processing, security authentication.However, in traditional industries such as banking, telecommunications, these industries some business functions and performance have special requirements, therefore, the traditional single-function middleware middleware such as transaction demand for a long time.
Second, the traditional workflow technology (WorkFlow) and CORBA-related technologies.
With the SOA concept of promotion and product and market development, Web services-related specifications mature, the corresponding products, technologies and open source implementation has also been developing rapidly.Services to create, call and service choreography (BPEL) also have a mature and reliable product, which CORBA traditional workflow products and related technology products caused a strong blow.
Third, the top Web development technologies, Java and.Net have been greatly developed, Java areas such as Struts + Hibernate + Spring, JSP + Servlet + EJB, JSF, etc..NET areas such as ASP, COM, C # and so on.The rapid development of these technologies, will gradually phase out the traditional PHP, CGI and other Web development technologies.
The integration of e-government tide
With the deepening of enterprise information and technology, in 2007, some of "highbrow" technology and products will be gradually accepted by customers and the market, such as enterprise application integration (Enterprise Application Integration, EAI) platform, Web servicesand implementation of product related technology, artificial intelligence software such as expert systems, decision support systems and so on.The new technologies and products will continue to emerge, to effectively meet market and customer needs, such as B2B applications and integration for development platform and tools for the Service Component Architecture (Service Component Architecture, SCA) protocol products.
The Ministry of Agriculture, "Information Resources" and "National Information Network" project as an example.In the past, due to the limited construction of the early maturity of the technology, and various subordinate units in the information system set up time, application of technology and planning is not unified, the Ministry of Agriculture within the overall heterogeneous information environment, information silos widespread.
The traditional information sharing and exchange is via email, not only a heavy workload, duplication of effort and inefficient, time is not strong, the effect of information services.The exchange of data through the use of messaging middleware platform, the Ministry of Agriculture, "National Agricultural Library Web site information" and "National Information Network" truly realized the construction of channels across the system, a unified data model construction, to achieve their IT environmentthe integration of information resources, not only solved the manual entry and other heavy and repetitive work, and accelerated the flow of national and local agricultural information resources, complementary features to ensure in a distributed environment, security of information sharing, efficiency, integrityand reliability, but also ensure the business integrity.
Technically, service-oriented architecture SOA software will become the basic framework of next-generation network services, middleware architecture based on SOA middleware is an important direction of development.In the SOA architecture, middleware layers of building blocks available for sharing and business functions of each component can be packaged as a Web service to support the integration and coordination across functions.
From a market point of view, middleware development, made a notable feature is the rise of middleware.Pattern of world domination of international giants is being broken, a large number of proprietary middleware vendors rise to the domestic middleware market development in China has brought to life.
In fact, both the middleware is a common focus, while also focusing on areas of personality, level of understanding of the industry vendors for the customer is very important.With the Eastern Technologies, represented by the rise of domestic middleware vendors, especially e-government requirements on middleware climax, national companies have ushered in the pattern of development of the market turning point.
More importantly, the integration of e-government tide, to bring new opportunities for domestic middleware vendors.According to relevant statistics, in 2005 the market size of e-government to reach 478 billion yuan, an increase of 16.3%; ministries, provincial, prefecture and county government web sites with rates reaching 93.4%, 90.3%, 93.1% and 69.3%.According to analysis, the scale of e-government investment is expected to exceed 50 billion this year, of which the ratio is about 3% of the middleware.
Strength of domestic and foreign middleware, there is a gap
Therefore, only the field of e-government needs of the middleware market size of more than 1.5 billion alone, where the demand does not include the middleware large SMEs.Another point should not be overlooked is that the Government has been encouraging the development of national software companies, e-government is also a sensitive area, in the same price made under the condition of some middleware vendors be tilted into an inevitable trend.
Currently, the practice started in e-government in the government sector has more than 200 projects to benefit from the domestic middleware.These projects, to break the constraints of time constraints and fragmentation, and modern scientific management for the government to provide strong technical support.
Today, China's information construction began to application stage, the association between various types of information resources, integration, collaboration, interaction and on-demand service, which is middleware for the development of a huge space.Currently, the network gradually in the basic middleware application middleware, application middleware, application framework and other three levels of competition and the formation of intense product market competition.
Overall, the overall strength of the domestic middleware companies and foreign companies is still a big gap.Having said that the maturity of the domestic middleware products is no problem, but it is widely accepted middleware products domestically, but there is a fairly long process.Of course, domestic middleware vendors and their products also have a very clear advantage, closer to the practical needs of the State of information has accumulated rich experience in middleware applications, middleware products can be made in terms of practicality and ease of use, closer to the localof market demand, technical support and services also have a considerable advantage.Can see that the middleware has been widely used successfully made our government, transportation, finance, securities, insurance, taxation, telecommunications, mobile, education and other industries or areas of information technology, and become large-scale applications an indispensable part of building.
In the basic software, if the independent operating systems and database management system development, we have lost a lot of opportunities, then the middleware provides us a good opportunity to cut into the basic software.This is because the middleware is an open technology, operating systems and network applications ranging from the vast expanse of territory between the ride are the domain of middleware.
The Ministry of Agriculture, "Information Resources" and "National Information Network" project as an example.In the past, due to the limited construction of the early maturity of the technology, and various subordinate units in the information system set up time, application of technology and planning is not unified, the Ministry of Agriculture within the overall heterogeneous information environment, information silos widespread.
The traditional information sharing and exchange is via email, not only a heavy workload, duplication of effort and inefficient, time is not strong, the effect of information services.The exchange of data through the use of messaging middleware platform, the Ministry of Agriculture, "National Agricultural Library Web site information" and "National Information Network" truly realized the construction of channels across the system, a unified data model construction, to achieve their IT environmentthe integration of information resources, not only solved the manual entry and other heavy and repetitive work, and accelerated the flow of national and local agricultural information resources, complementary features to ensure in a distributed environment, security of information sharing, efficiency, integrityand reliability, but also ensure the business integrity.
Technically, service-oriented architecture SOA software will become the basic framework of next-generation network services, middleware architecture based on SOA middleware is an important direction of development.In the SOA architecture, middleware layers of foundation for shared components and business functions of each component can be packaged as a Web service to support the integration and coordination across functions.
From a market point of view, middleware development, made a notable feature is the rise of middleware.Pattern of world domination of international giants is being broken, a large number of proprietary middleware vendors rise to the domestic middleware market development in China has brought to life.
In fact, both the middleware is a common focus, while also focusing on areas of personality, level of understanding of the industry vendors for the customer is very important.With the Eastern Technologies, represented by the rise of domestic middleware vendors, especially e-government requirements on middleware climax, national companies have ushered in the pattern of development of the market turning point.
More importantly, the integration of e-government tide, to bring new opportunities for domestic middleware vendors.According to relevant statistics, in 2005 the market size of e-government to reach 478 billion yuan, an increase of 16.3%; ministries, provincial, prefecture and county government web sites with rate reached 93.4%, 90.3%, 93.1% and 69.3%.According to analysis, the scale of e-government investment is expected to exceed 50 billion this year, of which the ratio is about 3% of the middleware.
Strength of domestic and foreign middleware, there is a gap
Therefore, only the field of e-government needs of the middleware market size of more than 1.5 billion alone, where the demand does not include the middleware large SMEs.Another point should not be overlooked is that the Government has been encouraging the development of national software companies, e-government is also a sensitive area, in the same price made under the condition of some middleware vendors be tilted into an inevitable trend.
Currently, the practice started in e-government in the government sector has more than 200 projects to benefit from the domestic middleware.These projects, to break the constraints of time constraints and fragmentation, and modern scientific management for the government to provide strong technical support.
Today, China's information construction began to application stage, the association between various types of information resources, integration, collaboration, interaction and on-demand service, which is middleware for the development of a huge space.Currently, the network gradually in the basic application middleware middleware, application middleware, application framework and other three levels of competition and the formation of intense product market competition.
Overall, the overall strength of the domestic middleware companies and foreign companies is still a big gap.