WebFindIt: an architecture and system for querying Web databases

Author

Bouguettaya, Athman ; Bentallah, B. ; Ouzzani, Mourad ; Hendra, Lily

Author_Institution

Center for Cooperative Inf. Syst., Queensland Univ. of Technol., Brisbane, Qld., Australia

Volume

3

Issue

4

fYear

1999

Firstpage

30

Lastpage

41

Abstract

The Web offers a single user interface to data sharing across heterogeneous and autonomous databases, but it was not designed to handle the rigid DBMS protocols and data formats used by relational and object-oriented databases. WebFindIt is an ongoing project to develop the database equivalent of the World Wide Web-namely, a World Wide Database-through a middleware infrastructure for describing, locating, and accessing data from any kind of Web-accessible database. A special-purpose language, Web-Tassili, supports the definition and manipulation of middleware constructs for organizing the information space. An implementation of WebFindIt combines Java, CORBA and database technologies

Keywords

Internet; Java; client-server systems; distributed object management; information resources; object-oriented databases; search engines; CORBA; Java; Web database querying; Web-Tassili; WebFindIt; World Wide Database; World Wide Web; data formats; data sharing; heterogeneous databases; middleware; object-oriented databases; protocols; relational databases; special-purpose language; user interface; Access protocols; Computer architecture; Image databases; Internet; Java; Prototypes; Scalability; Service oriented architecture; Space technology; Web sites;

fLanguage

English

Journal_Title

Internet Computing, IEEE

Publisher

ieee

ISSN

1089-7801

Type

jour

DOI

10.1109/4236.780958

Filename

780958