Abstract
Integration of heterogeneous data sources in a Web environment has become a major concern of the database community. Novel architectures, data models and query languages have been proposed but the complementary problem of data conversion has been less studied. The YAT system provides a means to build software components based on data conversion in a simple and declarative way. We show that the YAT system can also be used to create integrated Web views over heterogeneous data sources very easily. Only minor changes were required for YAT to provide data integration (as opposed to data conversion) in a Web environment. Finally, we report on our experience while building the Verso Web site using YAT.
This work is partially supported by the OPAL project (Esprit IV project number 20377) and the AFIRST association (Association Franco-Israélienne pour la Recherche Scientifique et Technique).
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Siméon, J., Cluet, S. (1999). Using YAT to Build a Web Server. In: Atzeni, P., Mendelzon, A., Mecca, G. (eds) The World Wide Web and Databases. WebDB 1998. Lecture Notes in Computer Science, vol 1590. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/10704656_8
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