The funny definition for the middleware is that it is: “The intersection of the stuff that network engineers don’t want to do with the stuff that developers don’t want to do“.

Middleware is software that has its own APIs to help insulate software developers from operating system-specific interfaces. It supports complex, distributed applications serving as an intermediary between different application components. It is a software layer that lies between the operating system and the applications. Middleware is especially integral to modern information based on XML, SOAP, Web services, and service-oriented architecture. The middleware enables the Enterprise Application Integration in order to integrate enterprise computer applications.

Middleware is software that “merges together” two or more types of software (for example, two applications, their operating systems and the network on which everything works), by transferring information between them and exchanging this information over a network without both interacting applications being aware of the middleware. So, middleware facilitates development for network distributed software, by supporting transparency of the reuse of software modules.

Many popular vendors these days are providing middleware products and enhance the middleware technologies as message-oriented middleware (MOM). 

One of the leading world providers of MOM used in the development of Enterprise Application Integration solutions is TIBCO with its palette of integration software products. These products are using the power of TIBCO’s messaging software, provide the B2B integration, data integration, master data management, mainframe integration etc. TIBCO’s EAI solution lets your applications, databases and mainframes communicate and interact with each other by automatically routing and transforming information so it gets where it needs to be, when it needs to be, and in the proper format.

InterWorks employees - architects, developers and testers are experts in utilizing the TIBCO tools: TIBCO BusinessWorks, TIBCO Designer, TIBCO Administrator, TIBCO Integration Manager, TIBCO Portal Builder etc. In the past few years we have been developing complete solutions using the TIBCO products that involved: creation of BW processes, xml schemas, connections, transports, using of RV and JMS messaging, synchronizing the TIBCO BW applications to work with different Web applications, application servers, databases like MS SQL Server and Oracle etc. We developed many migration projects from TIBCO IM to TIBCO BW as well.