Metadata-Driven SOA-Based Application for Facilitation of Real-Time Data Warehousing

  • Authors:
  • Damir Pintar;Mihaela Vranić;Zoran Skočir

  • Affiliations:
  • Faculty of Electrical Engineering and Computing, University of Zagreb, Croatia;Faculty of Electrical Engineering and Computing, University of Zagreb, Croatia;Faculty of Electrical Engineering and Computing, University of Zagreb, Croatia

  • Venue:
  • EC-Web 2009 Proceedings of the 10th International Conference on E-Commerce and Web Technologies
  • Year:
  • 2009

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Abstract

Service-oriented architecture (SOA) has already been widely recognized as an effective paradigm for achieving integration of diverse information systems. SOA-based applications can cross boundaries of platforms, operation systems and proprietary data standards, commonly through the usage of Web Services technology. On the other side, metadata is also commonly referred to as a potential integration tool given the fact that standardized metadata objects can provide useful information about specifics of unknown information systems with which one has interest in communicating with, using an approach commonly called "model-based integration". This paper presents the result of research regarding possible synergy between those two integration facilitators. This is accomplished with a vertical example of a metadata-driven SOA-based business process that provides ETL (Extraction, Transformation and Loading) and metadata services to a data warehousing system in need of a real-time ETL support.