When small is small, big time great, when nobody cares about dark, when the mass response scenery, this is the legendary middleware industry.After more than 10 years in the extraordinary development, the global industry gradually robust middleware, IBM, ORACLE, BEA, INOA, East Pass, Kingdee software such as Lawrence of gradually into the Bureau, from different angles, force, steadily boosting the broader market, but also makes2004,2005 middleware industrial heyday, the light is far overshadowed the database and operating system.
Into 2006, the middleware industry is still a vital force in IT industry, growing faster than the database and ERP software.At the same time, some people began to worry: a long period of concern middleware industry will go weak?Application software will become a vassal?Finally, in 2006 expansion of market demand, market performance and strong active market performance, so the fact that over the imaginary, middleware, or another "fire" the one.The difference is, this time behind the hot, has a new excitement -
SOA
SOA (service-oriented architecture) the initial and 2000, germinated in 2004,2005, but the real fad was formed in 2006.As an architecture, as an implementation methodology, SOA is the IT industry should be shared, but it is preferred middleware, alone in the middleware field shows the vigorous vitality.
SOA and middleware is most closely, can be understood as the relationship between fish and water.This relationship includes two meanings: First, the use of middleware products that can be very good build SOA applications; Then there developed by the application of middleware products, would easily be integrated into the SOA architecture."In this mode, as part of an application or application is a service that other applications and customers without writing a lot of code in the case of use of these services, all this makes some large enterprises or geographically distributedbroader scope of the development team to better cooperation, because these SOA middleware framework of business models can be re-configured or optimized in new ways to meet new needs. "Gartner Group analyst Roy think.
In 2006 the software industry in China as a whole into a hurricane SOA, SOA middleware companies as a great opportunity.To pre-emptive, IBM launched in April, when the "Chinese University SOA Application Contest."IBM's history in this competition is held in cooperation with Chinese universities the size of the biggest events.For this competition, IBM has mobilized substantial resources to the world - IBM Software Group, IBM Cooperation Department of the University, IBM China Research Lab, IBM China Development Center have been included in the list.Because of competition from the business case and simulation environment, the impact of competition, the industry popular praise.
Followed by the East Pass (TongTech) started in the SOA field of the "big action."As the leading middleware vendors, East Pass (TongTech) is the SOA has the Pathfinder.As early as 2005, the East Pass (TongTech) proposed the "BOA = Business + SOA" concept, the framework for the SOA fill in a lot of things in the local characteristics and regional characteristics of the industry, making the true convergence of SOA and industry application, known as "wear costume of the SOA".
In 2006, in order to accelerate the popularization of SOA, the East also held a vigorous through the "2006 China Tour middleware and SOA cutting-edge technology to say" large-scale SOA popularity and talent recruitment activities and events over the same period in China's first launchSOA research and exchange of specialized clubs - China SOA Club (www.soaclub.net currently the most professional, most authoritative SOA community).
As and IBM, East gang up out the first camp BEA, naturally incite competition for SOA right to speak.Near the end of the year, BEA introduced SOA 360 °, announced from the middleware vendors into "SOA vendors", the three product lines are fused into a unified SOA platform.BEA SOA 360 ° will be the future of the new brand, the original make contributions for the BEA's "Tuxedo, WebLogic, AquaLogic" three brands will become history.
SOA middleware companies have found this great excitement to drive users to the market with excitement.Institute of Software, Chinese Academy of Sciences, senior researcher at Chung-Sui overall highly ho phenomenon: "SOA and BPM workflow management are combined, the companies who can write its own work flow, quickly respond to external changes, to enable enterprises togain a competitive edge on the market, this is a great influence on SOA because later released. In the first reaction is that the various domestic industries various government departments, the National Science and Technology Commission and Beijing Municipal Science and Technology Commission to support this work are a lot of money, in addition to the otherthe South many cities, many enterprises engage in the Pearl River Delta SOA, I feel the market is still the largest enterprise SOA, China has hundreds of thousands of businesses are waiting to see, as long as we do this out, see the effect, lookto the typical, I believe that Chinese enterprises should use, do not have to eliminate. "
Of platform
2006 was also formally declare the middleware "platform" of the year, all of the software giant spontaneously separate middleware products to be adjusted to "middleware platform", including: ORACLE of the FUSION platform, SAP's NetWeaver platform; IBM'sIBM Global Service platform.Platform, the basic conditions for the product line is to be rich, to complete, can not rely on so-called "application server" conquer the world.
Middleware platform and there are great differences between traditional middleware, middleware platforms ≠ traditional middleware.For example, IBM's middleware platform, WebSphere products than simply to much broader.IBM Software Group WebSphere software, Sandy Carter, vice president of the world described their middleware platform: "IBM already has the key to achieving integration - open standards-based middleware platform, full support of the five software brands SOA, in the" integrated strategy "assume different roles: Lotus is to integrate, DB2 is the information integration, WebSphere is a process integration, Tivoli is a system administrator, and Rational is to establish an integrated IT platform. "Thus, in the IBM products, system, middleware has played"clearance" to achieve a "software is middleware."
Rookie Oracle middleware "fusion (FUSION) middleware platform" is not a traditional middleware.Compared with traditional middleware, integration middleware is a platform-based solutions, its greatest feature is to provide the "socket" function: You can remove from an Oracle middleware components, and replaced with other manufacturers.Other manufacturers in the Fusion applications certified to run after.Therefore, if customers want to use the gateway to other manufacturers, data management, directory, just that they can be consistent with the relevant standards.
Leading brand in the East China middleware pass (TongTech) is also the platform of the walk way of thinking.East Pass (TongTech) has a perfect system, middleware products, including messaging middleware, transaction middleware, application servers, security, middleware and so on.On this basis, a large platform has spawned many small platforms, such as large file transfer platform, sharing resources exchange platform.
"Asia's middleware platform is biased in favor of the biggest features of the local custom, the use of such a loosely coupled platform ideas, we can successfully implanted for the industrial customers of their professional business modules. Meanwhile, the East through a wealth of productsBOA category and leading cost structure to ensure that this platform is the best and most suitable platform for Chinese enterprises. "TongTech Xu Zhidong, vice president, said.
According to Xu Zhidong introduction of platform middleware user market is the "excitement" and its new product MBP (mobile banking platform) and GTP (file transfer platform) in the user in a loud voice, in the Ministry of Agriculture, Ministry of Public Security of the many e-governmentFour state-owned bank's business systems have gained widespread recognition.
Resource sharing exchange
Middleware industry in 2006, another excitement should be "resource-sharing exchange", which is popular in the popular e-government applications.Due to historical reasons, China's e-government project has a "base is relatively weak, a wide range of rapid change, non-equilibrium" features, each e-government systems regardless of gold money, gold trial, Golden Shield or the provincial, city, county electronicsgovernment, there is a common problem - the sharing of resources exchange.
In view of this, the beginning, the state authorities to issue a "sharing of government information resources on strengthening the work of a number of opinions," and the first pilot in the capital Beijing, set up a "government information resources sharing in the leading group," according to "physical dispersion,logical focus "and" integration of resources and intensive construction "principle, co-ordinating the construction of Beijing government information sharing exchange platform.
"In Beijing, the sharing of resources exchange platform in this project, the East through the honor of being the chief architect of the core business systems. TongTech on its own related products and technologies, with SOA / ESB, to loosely coupled integration approach, and through the foundationadaptation techniques and data transfer successfully to meet the Beijing government information resources sharing and exchange platform needs, but also the entire system can achieve all the different access data and system access. "deputy general manager of the East Tong Li Steel said.
Li steel that "resource sharing exchange" is definitely the next middleware excitement, can be seen as "the third stage of e-government" sign.With the Beijing government information exchange platform to share the successful launch, a number of suburban counties, as well as a nationwide, two cities will start similar projects.West District Administrative exchange platform for information sharing, resource sharing, Shijingshan District government and other projects coming on line exchange platform to fully illustrate this point.
And SOA, platform-based than resource sharing and exchanging the excitement does not seem to the outside report.This may be because the e-government projects more favored national brands, making a number of international brands disappointed to take a "cold treatment" approach, leading to market the "voice" is quite small, but from the East Pass, in creating softwareZhongguancun software company's business position, this integrated, upgraded e-government projects accounted for a considerable share of their financial performance, but also user market demand for a large class of objective existence, it should referred to as "excitement."
"SOA, platform, resource sharing and exchanging" and become the middleware industry, the three major excitement in 2006.Through these we can find excitement, and 2005, the industry that "diversity, sub-sectors, to integration" is characterized by the same strain.We also have reason to believe that, as users of middleware has changed from the familiar strange, the whole industry, great strides forward in 2007, the birth of middleware will be more and more excitement.