Middleware vs. Architecture — What's the Difference?
Difference Between Middleware and Architecture
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Definitions
Middleware
Middleware is a type of computer software that provides services to software applications beyond those available from the operating system. It can be described as "software glue".Middleware makes it easier for software developers to implement communication and input/output, so they can focus on the specific purpose of their application.
Architecture
Architecture (Latin architectura, from the Greek ἀρχιτέκτων arkhitekton "architect", from ἀρχι- "chief" and τέκτων "creator") is both the process and the product of planning, designing, and constructing buildings or other structures. Architectural works, in the material form of buildings, are often perceived as cultural symbols and as works of art.
Middleware
Software that serves as an intermediary between systems software and an application.
Architecture
The art and science of designing and erecting buildings.
Middleware
(computing) Software that functions at an intermediate layer between applications and operating system or database management system, or between client and server.
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Architecture
Buildings and other large structures
The low, brick-and-adobe architecture of the Southwest.
Middleware
(computing) Networking software or hardware that is deployed in the middle of, as opposed to serviced by, a packet network to enhance or provide some network function, such as caching, filtering, or firewall functionality.
Architecture
A style and method of design and construction
Byzantine architecture.
Architecture
Orderly arrangement of parts; structure
The architecture of the federal bureaucracy.
The architecture of a novel.
Architecture
(Computers) The overall design or structure of a computer system or microprocessor, including the hardware or software required to run it.
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Architecture
Any of various disciplines concerned with the design or organization of complex systems
Enterprise architecture.
Architecture
The art and science of designing and managing the construction of buildings and other structures, particularly if they are well proportioned and decorated.
The architecture throughout NYC is amazing.
Architecture
The profession of an architect.
Architecture
Any particular style of building design.
Architecture
Construction, in a more general sense; frame or structure; workmanship.
Architecture
A unifying structure.
Architecture
(computing) A family of CPUs sharing a common instruction set and having partial or full compatibility with software built on each other.
Architecture
(computing) A specific model of a microchip or CPU.
The Intel architectures have more software written for them.
Architecture
The structure and design of a system or product.
The architecture of the company's billing system is designed to support its business goals.
Architecture
The art or science of building; especially, the art of building houses, churches, bridges, and other structures, for the purposes of civil life; - often called civil architecture.
Many other architectures besides Gothic.
Architecture
Construction, in a more general sense; frame or structure; workmanship.
The architecture of grasses, plants, and trees.
The formation of the first earth being a piece of divine architecture.
Architecture
An architectural product or work
Architecture
The discipline dealing with the principles of design and construction and ornamentation of fine buildings;
Architecture and eloquence are mixed arts whose end is sometimes beauty and sometimes use
Architecture
The profession of designing buildings and environments with consideration for their esthetic effect
Architecture
(computer science) the structure and organization of a computer's hardware or system software;
The architecture of a computer's system software
