Authors: Veerendra Battula
Abstract: This article examines the orchestration of Tomcat, JBoss, and WebSphere across hybrid Unix/Linux infrastructures, emphasizing the role of automation in creating resilient middleware frameworks. It explores the challenges of heterogeneous environments, including fragmentation, manual administration, compliance demands, and security risks. The discussion highlights how governance can be embedded into middleware provisioning, patching, and monitoring through tools such as Puppet, Chef, Ansible, Nagios, Zabbix, and Tripwire. Case studies from finance, telecommunications, healthcare, and government demonstrate how automated middleware governance improves resilience, compliance, and efficiency in mission-critical operations. The article also addresses challenges such as configuration drift, cultural resistance, and scalability while offering best practices for mitigation. Looking ahead, it identifies future directions including AI-driven predictive monitoring, cloud-native middleware orchestration, continuous compliance, and sustainability integration.
DOI: http://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.16925647
