Do you need to develop flexible software that can be customized quickly? Do you need to add the power and efficiency of frameworks to your software? The ADAPTIVE Communication Environment (ACE) is an open-source toolkit for building high-performance networked applications and next-generation middleware. ACE's power and...

• Create a variety of multiplayer games and apps in the Unity 4 game engine,...

The Handbook of Mobile Middleware provides an exhaustive overview of recent developments in the various fields related to how software supports mobile computing. This advanced reference authored by internationally recognized experts integrates the valuable insight gained from actual deployments into a full compendium. It begins by presenting...

This book will teach you all about Windows Server AppFabric (code-named “Dublin”),a set of extensions to Windows Server that allow it to function as a lightweight, application server. The combination of Windows Server and AppFabric provides an easy-to-manage platform for developing, deploying, and reliably hosting middle-tier...

As the first pure language of the content engineering era, Network Query Language (NQL) is the ultimate tool for rapid and simple development of intelligent agents, bots, spiders, middleware, and scalable business-to-business content aggregation...

Today's software systems rely on the concepts of concurrency, modularity and distribution, both within the design of the operating system and those systems that it supports. The modern approach of this book acknowledges that distributed systems are now commonplace and a reader is more likely to be using one than a centralized...

• Create a number of Android applications using the Xamarin Android platform
• Extensively integrate your Android devices with other...

Although numerous books on security are available, many of them cover only theory or perhaps a security silo—that is, an island of security based on a particular tool, application, or technology. It should be obvious that no complete security solution is a silo; all secure business applications touch many tools and many technologies. Also,...

New paradigms for communication/networking systems are needed in order to tackle such emerging issues as heterogeneity, complexity and management of evolvable infrastructures, thus requiring approaches that are both task- and knowledge-driven. The networking and seamless integration of concepts, technologies and devices in a dynamically changing...