ABSTRACT
This section is a bit abstract/higher level and perhaps also a bit argumentative in that we’re going to discuss somewhat different views of what a software architecture is. Bear with me on this, if you don’t have a grasp of these kinds of issues then you won’t be able to fully understand the pros and cons of one middleware paradigm and its associated technologies versus other middleware paradigms and their associated technologies, which of course is the major goal of this textbook.
