BEA Liquid Data for WebLogic: XML-Based Enterprise Information Integration

  • Authors:
  • Michael J. Carey

  • Affiliations:
  • -

  • Venue:
  • ICDE '04 Proceedings of the 20th International Conference on Data Engineering
  • Year:
  • 2004

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Abstract

This presentation provides a technical overview ofBEA Liquid Data for WebLogic, a relatively newproduct from BEA Systems that provides enterpriseinformation integration capabilities to enterpriseapplications that are built and deployed using the BEAWebLogic Platform.Liquid Data takes an XML-centricapproach to tackling the long-standingproblem of integrating data from disparate datasources and making that information easily accessibleto applications.In particular, Liquid Data uses theforthcoming XQuery language standard as the basisfor defining integrated views of enterprise data andquerying over those views.We provide a briefoverview of the Liquid Data product architecture andthen discuss some of the query processing technologythat lies at the heart of the product.