Take the BriefingsDirect middleware/ESB survey now. Forgive my harping on this, but I keep hearing about how powerful social media is for gathering insights from the IT communities and users. Yet I ...

Open-source middleware consortium ObjectWeb has announced the Petals project, a step forward for its year-old Enterprise Service Bus initiative. Petals will focus on the development of a Java Business ...

Enterprise service bus is the most promising new middleware approach. ESB generally refers to integration software that supports simple, expedited, loosely coupled, standards-based, service-oriented ...

Learn how a new approach to evolving technical architectures promises to make it easier to test out hypothesis about business improvement, application performance, and user experience. Continue ...

Do you still need middleware? It’s an important question without a clear answer, as the most prominent forces driving enterprise IT architecture today are pulling in opposite directions. Last week Red ...