Research on Key Issues for the Next Generation Middleware Technology

With networks becoming increasingly pervasive, new generation applications will have to deal with advanced nonfunctional properties such as context-awareness, openness, and mobility. These applications present some challenging problems to middleware designers. In this paper; we firstly attempt to identify the key characteristics of today's networking environments. Subsequently, we look deeper into some key issues that next generation middleware needs to cope with. Also, details of some real solutions are showed as well. Finally, we present the future directions of research and conclude this paper.