middle age

n : the time of life between youth and old age (e.g., between 40

and 60 years of age)

middleware

Software that mediates between an {application program} and a

{network}. It manages the interaction between disparate

applications across the heterogeneous computing {platform}s.

The {Object Request Broker} (ORB), software that manages

communication between {objects}, is an example of a middleware

program.