last updated 5/13/05 : Notes to myself ; best to my knowledge ; apologize for any errors ; I honestly have not worked with all these technologies; also, the links may or may not be active
Security Developer Notes
SSL   Secure Socket Layer
SAML    
X.509    
WEP    
WPA    
1x    
EAP    
TLS    
RADIUS    
Kerberos   encryption
     
     
Session Quality Developer Notes
QoS   Quality of Service
WME/WMM    
load balancing    
RF   ? Is this Radio Frequency
     
     
Management Developer Notes
CLI    
SNMP   Simple Network Management Protocal
     
     
Middleware Developer Notes
Tuxedo    
MQ-Series    
Orbix ? Orbix OMG CORBA implementation
RMI Sun Remote Method Invocation….Sun J2EE used to be RPC based but moving towards CORBA from what I know
JMS Sun J2EE Java Message Service supports asychronous messaging
MPI    
HLA Gov't High Level Architecture
DIS Gov't Relative of HLA
NDDS RTI www.rti.com Real Time Innovations's Network Data Distribution Service, not sure if this is a framework or middleware
DDS OMG www.omg.org ; this is a data centric publish subscribe middleware
COM Microsoft Common Object Model
DCOM Microsoft Distributed Common Object Model
Cardamon   I believe this is an OMG project
COMPAS   Common Object and Message Passing System http://www.kongsberg.com/eng/kda/
ACE open source Adaptive Communication Environment - has middleware components
TAO open source a common ORB built on CORBA
CIAO open source CCM implementation -> built on the TAO ORB
micoCCM german CCM implementation -> www.fpx.de/MicoCCM/.2000 - single threaded
Qedo german CCM implementation -> QoS Enabled Distributed Objects
starCCM   CCM implementation -> starccm.sourceforge.net
Bold Stroke Prism CMM Boeing CCM implementation -> ????
     
     
Middleware Testing Developer Notes
EMULab LockMart ATL's testbed http://www.atl.external.lmco.com/projects/QoS/ Middleware Comparator Framework
     
     
J2EE App Server Developer Notes
WLS    
JBoss    
WebSphere IBM J2EE web services
Webmethods EAI Toyo B2B services
WebLogic BEA I am not sure if this is in the correct section
     
     
Web Server Developer Notes
Apache open source Apache project
iPlanet Sun  
IIS Microsoft Internet Information Server
Corona   multicast server for distributed objects
     
     
Wan Protocols Developer Notes
SOAP    
     
     
Service Orientated Architecture Developer Notes
LEIF roguewave Framework
Voyager recursion www.recursionsw.com
     
     
Containers Developer Notes
RIO   Java container for JINI
Tomcat   Streamlined Apache
     
     
Frameworks Developer Notes
Openwings   www.openwings.org ; system of systems architecture using JINI
MSF microsoft Microsoft Solutions Framework (MSF) is an integrated system of process guidance that embraces both agile and formal methodologies
     
     
Modeling Tools Developer Notes
Pathfinder Solutions   MDA modeling tool
Rose IBM UML modeling tool
Rose Real Time IBM UML modeling tool based on active objects, not true MDA
Pathmate IBM IBMs MDA tool
Enterprise Architect    
Rhapsody    
ArgoUML   Java based tool
EMF   Eclipse Modeling Framework
GME   Generic Modeling Environment
CoSMIC   Component Synthesis using Model Integrated Computing - think this is for QoS benchmarking of middleware
Gedae   This is a DSP hardware modeling tool
     
     
Modeling Languages Developer Notes
UML ? The three amigo et. Al
     
     
Ref. Arch./Ref. Model Developer Notes
NCES Gov't Network Centric Enterprise Services by DISA, not sure if this is a framework or reference architecture
EDOC OMG  
CWM OMG Common Warehouse Model
JTRS JPO Joint Tactical Radio ? Software radio standard…good stuff
C4ISR/DoDAF Gov't  
FEAF Gov't  
Zachman Framework Gov't Enterprise
OMB   Not sure about this
CCM OMG Common Component Model - typically extends an ORB to make it componentized
CCMPerf   Common Component Model Performance
     
     
Grids Developer Notes
Globus Toolkit open source http://www-unix.globus.org/toolkit/ ; the IEEE defines Grids  I am not sure if this is the same type of grid or what a grid is for that matter ; this needs investigation
     
     
Systems Engineering Developer Notes
Popkin Telelogic System Architect Tool - recently purchased by Telelogic
     
     
Simulations Developer Notes
Matlab Mathworks  
     
     
Requirements Developer Notes
DOORS   Dynamic Object…?something
RTM   Requirements Traceability Matrix
     
     
Data Modeling Developer Notes
XML   extensible Markup Language
IDL OMG Interface Definition Language - CORBA terms
MOF OMG Meta Object Facility
DTD   I forget what this is…reminder to myself - document text description?
     
     
Integrated Dev. Environments Developer Notes
Eclipse free IBM donated this to Free Software Foundation
JDK Sun Java Development Kit (old terminology renamed SDK)
SDK Sun Standard Development Kit
XDE IBM Extensible Development Environment
.NET Microsoft Microsoft's answer to J2EE
     
     
Embedded Developer Notes
eCos Debian  
pSOS ? now WindRiver
vxWorks Windriver  
Rational Rose RT IBM  
RTLinux Pro Montavista  
RTX for Windows    
LynxOs    
QNX    
Nucleus Mentor Graphics Accelerated's RTOS?
VRTX Mentor Graphics Virtual Real Time Executive
OSE    
xPe Microsoft Embedded XP
Windows CE Microsoft Some Embedded product
Integrity Greenhills I am guessing LockMart drove this with the JSF project
     
     
Databases Developer Notes
SQL   Structured Query Language
Oracle    
mySQL open source  
Erwin   Modeling tool for databases
Access Microsoft  
Bachman   Not pretzels
     
     
extensible Markup Language Developer Notes
JAXP    
DOM    
SAX    
     
     
Conferences Developer Notes
OOPSLA none ?
USENIX none ?
ECOOP none ?
     
     
References:
[1] Krishna, Natarajan, Gokhale, Schmidt  “CCMPerf: A Benchmarking Tool for CORBA Component Model Implementations", IEEE 2004
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