What is Oracle Fusion Middleware? Middleware has its roots in common integration tasks like connecting software applications and exchanging data. Middleware makes a difference within the back office and on the front lines, where people and knowledge meet. Over the years that followed, various technologies have emerged with the aim of creating the event of distributed applications easier. Companies needed to integrate their existing applications and make them available to their entire organization. Many applications were hardware dependent, were difficult to watch and maintain, and required large and powerful hardware. This is often where middleware technologies began. Middleware has come an extended way, very quickly. Now, with standards-based integration and straightforward to use tools, a company's internal IT resources are ready to more easily integrate enterprise applications, maintain these integrations, and evolve these integrations to satisfy changing business needs. Devel...