Traditionally, Middleware has played a crucial role in enterprise applications by integrating system components, allowing them to interoperate correctly and reliably, and facilitating system management and evolution. In recent times, however, middleware has been steadily moving up the application stack with application servers and code-oriented application development frameworks, e.g., (Jakarta Struts, Spring, etc.).

Many corporations with significant investments in technology have embarked on creating a middleware layer that can be leveraged by internal application development groups. While this creates a first order leverage for the corporation, these middleware groups are also stymied by the time it takes to develop flexible middleware components and adapt them to changing business needs. The Rage Enterprise framework can dramatically improve the scope and value of firm-specific middleware. With a highly scalable and flexible business process structure, and abstract components to enable the modeling and deployment of complex business processes, Rage enables middleware groups to rapidly create new re-usable, common, firm-specific middleware without the limitations of traditional code-based components. Such firm-specific middleware created using Rage can be remodeled and modified easily without any maintenance overhead. Any business process or collection of business processes modeled and deployed using Rage can be automatically deployed as a web service.

With our Enterprise Middleware intiative, we work with middleware groups in corporations to help them create firm-specific middlware based on the Rage Enterprise framework. This significantly increases the value provided by such middleware groups in a significantly shortened timeframe.