Everything about Message-oriented middleware

🧭 Start here: a 6-step reading path

1. Read the overview: Message-oriented middlewareA 5-minute orientation
2. Skim a recent paper: Osmotic Message-Oriented Middleware for Internet of ThingsInfluential work since 2022
3. Pick up a classic book: Software EngineeringThe most-reprinted book on the subject
4. Read the landmark paper: Performance evaluation of message-oriented middleware using the SPECjms2007 benchmarkCited 54 times
5. Go sideways: Advanced Message Queuing ProtocolA closely related topic
6. Go sideways: Jakarta MessagingA closely related topic

🏆 Landmark papers (most cited)

• Performance evaluation of message-oriented middleware using the SPECjms2007 benchmark

  Kai Sachs, Samuel Kounev, Jean Bacon · 2009 · Performance Evaluation · 54 citations

• Message-oriented middleware for smart grids

  Michele Albano, Luis Lino Ferreira, Luís Miguel Pinho · 2015 · Computer Standards & Interfaces · 52 citations

• A secure and distributed message oriented middleware for smart building applications

  Georgios Lilis, Maher Kayal · 2018 · Automation in Construction · 31 citations

• Osmotic Message-Oriented Middleware for the Internet of Things

  Thomas Rausch, Schahram Dustdar, Rajiv Ranjan · 2018 · IEEE Cloud Computing · 28 citations

• Publish/subscribe delay-tolerant message-oriented middleware for resilient communication

  Peng Jiang, John Bigham, Eliane Bodanese · 2011 · IEEE Communications Magazine · 16 citations

• Benchmarking message‐oriented middleware: TIB/RV versus SonicMQ

  Piyush Maheshwari, Michael Pang · 2005 · Concurrency and Computation: Practice and Experience · 15 citations

• Rapid-Response Framework for Defensive Driving Based on Internet of Vehicles Using Message-Oriented Middleware

  Po-Yu Lai, Chyi-Ren Dow, Yu-Yun Chang · 2018 · IEEE Access · 12 citations

• Applying a message oriented middleware architecture to the TJ-II remote participation system

  E. Sánchez, A. Portas, A. Pereira · 2006 · Fusion Engineering and Design · 7 citations

🆕 Influential since 2022

• Osmotic Message-Oriented Middleware for Internet of Things

  Islam Gamal, Hala Abdel-Galil, Atef Ghalwash · 2022 · Computers · 6 citations

• Advancing user-space networking for DDS message-oriented middleware: Further extensions

  Vincent Bode, Carsten Trinitis, Martin Schulz · 2025 · Pervasive and Mobile Computing · 2 citations

• A Real-Time Traffic Violation Detection System on Highways Using Surveillance Cameras and Message-Oriented Middleware

  Ahmet Sayar, Yilmaz Dikilitas · 2026 · IEEE Access · 1 citations

• Osmotic Message-Oriented Middleware for Internet of Things

  Islam Gamal · 2022 · International Journal of Software Innovation · 0 citations

• Multi-entity co-simulation of intelligent vehicle based on distributed message-oriented middleware

  Liping Peng, Rongrong Deng, Xiaoyan Li · 2025 · Journal of Highway and Transportation Research and Development (English Edition) · 0 citations

📚 Books worth reading

• Software EngineeringRoger S. Pressman, Bruce Maxim · 1982
• Service oriented architecture with JavaC. A. Binildas · 2008
• C++ network programmingDouglas C. Schmidt · 2002
• 📕Message-oriented middlewareYankee Group. Client/Server Computing Planning Service · 1995
• Les middlewares orientés messagesChristophe Bezault · 2001
• Middleware for communicationsQusay H. Mahmoud · 2004
• Advances in service-oriented and cloud computingSpain) ESOCC (Conference) (2nd 2013 Málaga · 2013
• Computer Networks & Communications (NetCom)Nabendu Chaki · 2013

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