ISO/IEC 23004-1:2007 specifies the architecture of the MPEG Multimedia Middleware technology. Multimedia Middleware (M3W) allows application software to execute multimedia functions with a minimum knowledge of the inner workings of the multimedia middleware as well as to support a structured way of updating, upgrading and/or extending the multimedia middleware. The architecture consists of the following.

• M3W API:
  


• multimedia API (specified in detail in ISO/IEC 23004-2);
  
• interfaces for audio broadcast decoding, processing and rendering;
  
• interfaces for video broadcast decoding, processing and rendering;
  
• IPMP interfaces;
  
• governance interfaces.
  


• Support API (specified in detail in ISO/IEC 23004-3 to ISO/IEC 23004-7):
  


• interfaces for instantiation of services (Runtime Environment and Service Manager);
  
• interfaces for interaction with remote services (REMI-P and REMI-R, REMI stands for Remote Method Invocator);
  
• interfaces for Resource Management;
  
• interfaces for Component Download;
  
• interfaces for Fault Management;
  
• interfaces for Integrity Management.
  


• Realization technology (specified in detail in ISO/IEC 23004-3):
  


• Unit of Trading;
  
• Unit of Loading;
  
• Unit of Instantiation;
  
• standard interfaces:
  


• navigation between interfaces,
  
• binding,
  
• access to public attributes.