Middleware'98

Session 1: Workflow.- 1 A CORBA Compliant Transactional Workflow System for Internet Applications.- 2 A Generic Workflow Environment based on CORBA Business Objects.- Session 2: Scalability.- 3 A Scalable Middleware Solution for Advanced Wide-Area Web Services.- 4 A Gossip-Style Failure Detection Service.- 5 System Support for Scalable and Fault Tolerant Internet Services.- Session 3: Availability and Integrity.- 6 Highly Available Trading System: Experiments with CORBA.- 7 Integrity Management in GUARDS.- 8 The Realize Middleware for Replication and Resource Management.- Session 4: ORB Engineering.- 9 DIMMA - A Multi-Media ORB.- 10 The Implementation of a High Performance ORB over Multiple Network Transports.- Session 5: ORB Architecture.- 11 Jonathan: an Open Distributed Processing Environment in Java.- 12 An Architecture for Next Generation Middleware.- 13 QuO's Runtime Support for Quality of Service in Distributed Objects.- Session 6: Components.- 14 Component Coordination in Middleware Systems.- 15 Architecturing and Configuring Distributed Application with Olan.- 16 A Framework for Systematic Synthesis of Transactional Middleware.- Session 7: Type Safety and Security.- 17 Secure Architectures.- 18 Improving Type-Safety in CORBA.- 19 Type Checking Stream Flow Endpoints.- Session 8: Mobile Objects.- 20 Mobile Java Objects.- 21 Javanaise: Distributed Shared Objects for Internet Cooperative Applications.- 22 Mole 3.0: A Middleware for Java-Based Mobile Software Agents.- Session 9: Web Series.- 23 Active Cache: Caching Dynamic Contents on the Web.- 24 Saperlipopette!: a Distributed Web Caching Systems Evaluation Tool.- 25 Experience With Top Gun Wingman: A Proxy-Based Graphical Web Browser for the 3Com PalmPilot.- Session 10: Events.- 26 Event-based DistributedWorkflow Execution with EVE.- 27 An Architecture to Support Storage and Retrieval of Events.- 28 Run-time Monitoring of Distributed Applications.- Index of Contributors.- Sponsors.

Prof. Dr. rer. nat. (habil.) Jochen Seitz ist Leiter des Fachgebiets Kommunikationsnetze am Institut für Informationstechnik der Technischen Universität Ilmenau.