In today's world, services and data are integrated in ever new constellations, requiring the easy, flexible and scalable integration of autonomous, heterogeneous components into complex systems at any time.

Event-based architectures inherently decouple system components. Event-based components are not designed to work with specific other components in a traditional request/reply mode, but separate communication from computation through asynchronous communication mechanisms via a dedicated notification service.

Mühl, Fiege, and Pietzuch provide the reader with an in-depth description of event-based systems. They cover the complete spectrum of topics, ranging from a treatment of local event matching and distributed event forwarding algorithms, through a more practical discussion of software engineering issues raised by the event-based style, to a presentation of state-of-the-art research topics in event-based systems, such as composite event detection and security. Their presentation gives researchers a comprehensive overview of the area and lots of hints for future research. In addition, they show the power of event-based architectures in modern system design, thus encouraging professionals to exploit this technique in next generation large-scale distributed applications like information dissemination, network monitoring, enterprise application integration, or mobile systems.

First in-depth and state-of-the-art technological description of event-based architectures Covers both basic techniques and important application scenarios Includes short descriptions of relevant standards like CORBA, Jini, JMS and commercial systems like IBM Websphere MQ and TIBCO Rendezvous Includes supplementary material: sn.pub/extras

Autorentext

Gero Mühl is with Berlin University of Technology, Intelligent Networks and Distributed Systems Management. He works on architectures of pub/sub systems and content-based routing. He received his PhD from Darmstadt University of Technology for a thesis about "Large-Scale Content-Based Publish/Subscribe Systems". Ludger Fiege is with Darmstadt University of Technology in Germany. He works in the Database and Distributed Systems group since several years on management and engineering issues in distributed publish/subscribe systems.

Inhalt
Basics.- Content-Based Models and Matching.- Distributed Notification Routing.- Engineering of Event-Based Systems.- Scoping.- Composite Events.- Advanced Topics.- Existing Notification Services.- Outlook.