Although it may be tough, solving the networked real-time challenge is critical. This challenge is addressed by middleware. So, what makes middleware real time? The easy answer would be that ...

DDS is designed for flexible delivery. Consider, for instance, a radar system. With DDS, a single radar can publish 1000 updates a second “best efforts” to a tracking system, forgetting any dropped ...

Need to distribute mainframe data to all those folks on local area networks? It's a problem many state and local government MIS departments are facing as information access becomes a priority. A few ...

Distributed systems work by sending information between otherwise independent applications. Traditionally, that communication is done by passing messages between the various nodes. This ...

Expertise from Forbes Councils members, operated under license. Opinions expressed are those of the author. Middleware sits between system and application software, helping developers create ...