Enabling Ubiquitous Database Access with XML

  • Authors:
  • Hui Lei;Kang-Woo Lee;Marion Blount;Carl D. Tait

  • Affiliations:
  • -;-;-;-

  • Venue:
  • MDA '99 Proceedings of the First International Conference on Mobile Data Access
  • Year:
  • 1999

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Abstract

This paper describes the design and implementation of DataX, middleware for enabling remote database access from heterogeneous thin clients. Unlike existing commercial offerings that require a standalone database on the client side, DataX partially replicates the server database in the form of XML, using a weak consistency criterion. It also adapts data replication to device characteristics and user preferences. It employs a per-device renderer to present data in a form layout, making the data access semantics separate from user interaction details and independent of the device type. It allows for rapid development of end-to-end solutions and application portability across multiple client and server platforms.