Middleware

This volume focuses on the design, implementation, deployment and evaluation of distributed systems platforms and architectures for future networked environments. Issues addressed in the text include: ORB architectures and engineering; event-based systems; workflow environments; scalability in distributed systems platforms; availability and integrity mobile objects; component architectures; type safety and security; web services; and application services. This book compiles the proceedings of Middleware '98, the IFIP International Conference on Distributed Systems Platforms and Open Distributed Processing. The conference was held in the Lake District, UK, in September 1998 and was sponsored by the International Federation for Information Processing (IFIP).