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What is middleware?

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    #11
    Anything that allows one thing to talk to another thing on a different box is middleware.

    Ideally, there would only be one flavour on any one site. Sadly, that is seldom the case...
    ‎"See, you think I give a tulip. Wrong. In fact, while you talk, I'm thinking; How can I give less of a tulip? That's why I look interested."

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      #12
      Ok finally it's the "additional" column.

      God i ******* hate these things.

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        #13
        Originally posted by Ketchup View Post
        It depends on what context it is used. It is generally a piece of software that is used as an interface between 2 environments, may be software and hardware, or between 2 different pieces of software.
        Yep, can be hardware, such as those fecking Sarvegas....

        For me tho, I'd say generally it's Message Queue or Meta Directory.....

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          #14
          Anything that could sit between your application and database, a metadata handler, whatever, could be construed as middle ware. I said ADO wasn't middleware, but it could be construed as middleware, as could com, etc.

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            #15
            Originally posted by Robinho View Post
            What is middleware?
            Crockery from Middle Earth
            Coffee's for closers

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              #16
              My pants.

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                #17
                A way of making it even more difficult to find out where the point of failure is when data is sent from one system to another, but seems not to arrive.
                Down with racism. Long live miscegenation!

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                  #18
                  Originally posted by Pondlife View Post
                  My pants.
                  Well that's something nobody has any experience with.

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                    #19
                    And if you look in IIS, the middleware bit is all the snooker balls spinning about.....

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                      #20
                      Originally posted by stek View Post
                      And if you look in IIS, the middleware bit is all the snooker balls spinning about.....
                      I always thought "middleware" in .NET terms was something that connects the front-end to the database, could be WCF, an ORM, or even ADO.NET.

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