Shrinking timelines, demanding costs and increasing number of features packed into a product; all these have ensured that middleware has become a key component in the design and development of any embedded system today. In simple terms, middleware development or integration is any system software effort that is not the OS kernel, device drivers, or application software. Middleware is the software layer that lies between the operating system and system software, and the user applications. Any software development that connects the client application to the kernel can be termed as middleware. It is hidden software layer consisting of custom-built APIs, and enables end application development and integration with existing programs. The main function of middleware integration or/and development in any product design and development activity is to make application development simpler. This is achieved by offering common programming abstractions, delivering fundamental operating systems and hardware, and masking low-level programming details.

What is Middleware Integration?

Middleware integration is integrating of software that has been abstracted out of the application layer for a variety of reasons. One reason is that it may already be included as part of the off-the-shelf OS package. Other reasons to remove it from the application layer include – reusability with other applications, decrease in development costs or availability off-the-shelf software through a third party. Middleware integration and development services are a critical part to any product design and development. Middleware plays a crucial role in enabling interoperability and communication between different software components, systems, and platforms. By selecting the right middleware solution, designing an effective integration architecture, configuring the middleware components, ensuring security and authentication, and monitoring and managing the middleware integration, product developers can create robust, scalable, and interoperable system.

Middleware integration and Development are meant to simplify the job of the application designer and provide a wide variety of functionality. Middleware development helps developers build applications more efficiently. Middleware acts like the glue between applications, data, and users. For organizations with multi-cloud and containerized environment, middleware development and integration can make it cost-effective to develop and run applications at scale. Middleware integration and development services help plan, design, develop, and manage safe, secure, reliable, and compliant platforms. Middleware integration activities includes networking protocols, file systems, virtual machines, and databases and more complex middleware like MOM, ORB, and RPC, embedded JVMs, .NET, and CORBA based middleware solutions.

Middleware Development Services

Mistral’s Middleware integration and development services allows connection between different end systems, performs data transformation, and application of business logic in complex, embedded systems like telecom, aerospace, defense and other mission-critical industries. Mistral offers a range of middleware development and integration services that address various product development sub-tasks like power management, media framework, protocol etc. on Android, Embedded Linux, VxWorks, RTEMS and other RTOS platforms.

Mistral’s middleware development and Integration services address activities like device power management, audio and video codecs integration, image and camera framework, media framework customization, test framework development, protocol development, algorithm development and integration, touch screen/display integration and wireless integration. Middleware integration and development helps in reducing the complexities in product development and enhance the product performance. Our middleware development and middleware integration services also include integration of third party applications like voice recognition, text-to-speech, gesture tracking among others.

In addition to middleware development and integration services, Mistral also offers a range of middleware integration solutions from RTI, aimed at fast real-time distribution of data. Once such platform is the RTI Data Distribution Service (RTI-DDS). The RTI-DDS is enables middleware integration in real-time systems. Based on a server less software bus, it allows real-time applications to communicate with each other with enterprise and legacy applications.