What are the advantages and disadvantages in middleware?

Answer 1

Advantages of middleware:

Real time information access among systems

Streamlines business processes and helps raise organizational efficiency

Maintains information integrity across multiple systems

It covers a wide range of software systems, including distributed Objects and components, message-oriented communication, and mobile application support.

Middleware is anything that helps developers create networked applications

Disadvantage of Middleware:

Prohibitively high development costs

There are few people with experience in the market place

There exists relatively few satisfying standards

The tools are not good enough

Too many platforms to be covered

Middleware often threatens the real-time performance of a system

Middleware products are not very mature