Iona Technologies Limited

Desmond Carbery

Peter Lawrence Cousins

Alan Thomas Conway

A novel communication device (e.g., router or switch) facilitates interoperation between a plurality of middleware. The communication device has in-ports, out-ports, and a configurator. In-ports, IP, . . . , IP, are associated with a middleware from a plurality of middleware and out-ports, OP, . . . , OP, are associated with a middleware from the plurality of middleware. The configurator configures in-ports and out-ports based on a binding and transport of associated middleware and the novel communication device facilitates interoperation between middleware via a communication path between at least one configured in-port and at least one configured out-port, with the communication path allowing an incoming message to pass from said at least one configured in-port to said at least one configured out-port. Parameters 'm' and 'n' are chosen such that any of the following conditions are true: m=0 and n&#x2267;1, m&#x2267;1 and n=0, m=n, m=1 and n&#x3e;1, m&#x3e;1 and n=1, and m&#x2260;n.

Flexibly deployable communication device facilitating interoperation between middleware

A system and method is introduced that integrates middleware components without canonicalization of data at runtime. An interface receives inputs identifying at least a first and second middleware to be made interoperative and a configurator configures at least an in-port and an out-port based on a binding and transport associated with the first and second middleware, respectively. Interoperation of the first and second middleware is effected via at least one communication path between the configured in-port and out-port, wherein the communication path allows an incoming message to pass from the in-port corresponding to said first middleware to the out-port corresponding to the second middleware without the creation of an intermediate canonical message.

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