Middlewares have been used in order to develop distributed applications in a variety of domains. Each of these domains has different requirements related to the communication among parts of the distributed system. Many times the requirements of different domains are contradictory, turning the implementation of a middleware are that fulfills them in more than one the application domain in into a very complex problem. One of the options to solve this issue is to create the middleware are in a way that it can be adapted accordingly to the needs of each application. In this study we survey some of the available techniques for the construction of adaptive middleware, ranging from simple changes in the transmission of data between nodes in a distributed system to more thorough adaptations in a system in order to allow for diferent application execution contexts. As a case study we propose a component model for an existing middleware, implemented in Lua, with the goal of enabling the middleware are to accommodate adaptations in its implementation in a simple and structured manner. We also created experiments in order to evaluate the applicability and effectiveness of the middleware.