An Overview of Souk Nets: A Component-Based Paradigm for Data Source Integration

  • Authors:
  • William J. McIver, Jr.;Karim Keddara;Christian Och;Roger King;Clarence A. Ellis;John Todd;Nathan Getrich;Richard Osborne;Brian Temple

  • Affiliations:
  • -;-;-;-;-;-;-;-;-

  • Venue:
  • DBPL '99 Revised Papers from the 7th International Workshop on Database Programming Languages: Research Issues in Structured and Semistructured Database Programming
  • Year:
  • 1999

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Abstract

Construction of complex software systems with off-the-shelf components has become a reality. Component-based frameworks tailored specifically for the domain of database integration are lacking, however. To use an existing component framework, data integrators must construct custom components specialized to the tasks of the data integration problem at hand. This approach allows other components provided by the framework to be reused, but is overly tedious and requires the integrator to employ the programming paradigms assumed by the component framework for interconnection and intercommunication between components, and manipulation of data provided by them. An alternate approach would employ a framework containing components tailored to data integration and which allows them to be interconnected using programming methods that are more natural to the domain of data integration. Souk is a language-independent, component-based paradigm for data integration. It is designed to allow the rapid construction of data integration solutions from off-the-shelf components, and to allow flexible evolution. This paper gives an overview of this paradigm.