Project History
- The Middleware Systems Research Group (MSRG) has been conducting
research on publish/subscribe and messagging middleware for many years.
This research effort has become known as the Toronto Publish/Subscribe
System family of projects (also known as ToPSS).
- In 2002, MSRG was approached by Cybermation, Inc to investigate the
use of content-based publish/subscribe for building a distributed job
scheduling and workload management infrastructure to form the basis of
Cybermation's future product line targeting distributed,
cross-enterprise job scheduling, workload management, and resource
monitoring.
- From 2003 to 2005, supported by Cybermation, Inc, NSERC, and CITO,
the Middleware Systems Research Group built the first PADRES prototype,
experimenting with a rule-based matching engine design, composite
subscription routing and composite event detection, and historic query
access.
- From 2006 to 2007, supported by Cybermation, Inc (acquired in April
2006 by Computer Associates, Inc), Sun Microsystems of Canada. and
OCE/CITO, the Middleware Systems Research Group is hardening the PADRES
prototype and extends PADRES with enterprise-grade features, such as
load balancing, failure resiliance, and security.