What is Middleware?Need of Middleware and its Examples

Middleware is computer software that connects software components or applications. The software consists of a set of services that allows multiple processes running on one or more machines to interact across a network. Middleware sits "in the middle" between application software working on different operating systems.

Need Of Middleware

• Middleware reduces application development and maintenance efforts by supplying a variety of useful functions not found in the basic network transport software.
• Most Computing is now distributed.
• More than 95 percent of all distributed applications use some type of off-the-shelf middleware.
• Implementing a distributed application without middleware is usually impractical

Examples of middleware

• Application servers
• Message-oriented Middleware (MOM)
• Object Request Brokers (ORBs)
• Integration Brokers (e.g., message brokers)
• Web Integration Servers
• Integration Platforms