WebFindIt: An Architecture and System for Querying Web Databases

  • Authors:
  • Athman Bouguettaya;Boualem Benatallah;Mourad Ouzzani;Lily Hendra

  • Affiliations:
  • -;-;-;-

  • Venue:
  • IEEE Internet Computing
  • Year:
  • 1999

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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