Harmony: holistic messaging middleware for event-driven systems

  • Authors:
  • P. Dube;N. Halim;K. Karenos;M. Kim;Z. Liu;S. Parthasarathy;D. Pendarakis;H. Yang

  • Affiliations:
  • IBM Research Division, Thomas J. Watson Research Center, Hawthorne, NY;IBM Research Division, Thomas J. Watson Research Center, Hawthorne, NY;Department of Computer Science and Engineering, University of California, Riverside, Riverside, CA;IBM Research Division, Thomas J. Watson Research Center, Hawthorne, NY;IBM Research Division, Thomas J. Watson Research Center, Hawthorne, NY;IBM Research Division, Thomas J. Watson Research Center, Hawthorne, NY;IBM Research Division, Thomas J. Watson Research Center, Hawthorne, NY;IBM Research Division, Thomas J. Watson Research Center, Hawthorne, NY

  • Venue:
  • IBM Systems Journal
  • Year:
  • 2008

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Abstract

In this paper, we present Harmony, a holistic messaging middleware for distributed, event-driven systems. Harmony supports various communication paradigms and heterogeneous networks. The key novelty of Harmony is the unified provision of end-to-end quality of service, security, and resiliency, which shields the applications from the underlying network dynamics, failures, and security configurations. We describe the Harmony architecture in the context of cyber-physical business applications and elaborate on the design of its critical system components, including routing, security, and mobility support.