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Posted By: vidhya
Subject: computer science foundation
Date Posted: 29Mar2007 at 12:28am
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Unified messaging (UM) is the concept of bringing together all messaging media such as voice messaging,
SMS and other mobile text messaging, email, and facsimile into a combined communications experience. Minimally, the communications experience will take the form of a unified mailbox and/or alert service, allowing the end-user to have a single source for message delivery, repository, access, and notification. UM is the ability to retrieve and send voice, fax, and email messages from a single interface, including mobile phone, fixed network phone, or personal computer. The market need for UM is for customers who need more control over communications, whether they be users who want to be in touch anytime, anywhere, or whether they be users who want more protection of privacy and/or personal time. Def#1 Software that connects two otherwise separate applications. For example, there are a number of middleware products that link a database system to a Web server. This allows users to request data from the database using forms displayed on a Web browser, and it enables the Web server to return dynamic Web pages based on the user's requests and profile. The term middleware is used to describe separate products that serve as the glue between two applications. It is, therefore, distinct from import and export features that may be built into one of the applications. Middleware is sometimes called plumbing because it connects two sides of an application and passes data between them. Common middleware categories include:
• TP monitors • DCE environments • RPC systems • Object Request Brokers (ORBs) • Database access systems • Message Passing Def#2 What is "MiddleWare" and why do Java programmers need it? Middleware is software that acts as the glue or plumbing between two otherwise separate applications. In acting as an intermediary, it is in perfect position to provide a set of services to the end-applications. For instance, an order-entry Java Web application may need to connect to a database. Instead of accessing the database directly, the order-entry application does so through an application server acting as middleware. The application server provides a set of common services to the application. These services could include security, transactions, load-balancing, failover and more. This means that the order-entry application programmer doesn't have to program these capabilities directly into her application. Def#3 In the computer industry, middleware is a general term for any programming that serves to "glue together" or mediate between two separate and often already existing programs. A common application of middleware is to allow programs written for access to a particular database to access other databases. Typically, middleware programs provide messaging services so that different applications can communicate. The systematic tying together of disparate applications, often through the use of middleware, is known as enterprise application integration (EAI). ------------- MBA Examination papers 
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