WIP: Middleware

The Valence Middleware is a set of components that provide a unified interface for the Valence Type system.

At its core, middleware is made up from the following components.

Design goals

TODO: describe modifiable middleware, design goals and philosophy behind it

These means are achieved with three key components:

• brokers
• type registries
• Valence types

Middleware Brokers

Middleware brokers are responsible for managing the lifecycle of middleware instances and their associated types.

Middleware Type Registries

Middleware Type Registries are responsible for unifying a set of foreign types to be used in Valence Programs.

Valence Types

Valence Types are the canonical representations of various external domain implementations of some types.