Data Integration using Web Services

Data Integration using Web Services

In this paper we examine the opportunities for data integration in the context of the emerging Web Services systems development paradigm. The paper introduces the programming standards associated with Web Services and provides an example of how Web Services can be used to unlock heterogeneous business systems to extract and integrate business data. We provide an introduction to the problems and...

Web Services Oriented Data Processing and Integration

Software Development and Integration Using Web Services

The processing, exchange, and integration of the enormous amount of information on the World Wide Web, on one hand, and the need to rapidly develop dynamic and agile enterprise applications, on the other hand, have led to the development of powerful Web applications, referred to as Web services. Web services are at the foundation of a swift change of paradigm in software development and deploym...

Geospatial Data Integration with Semantic Web Services: the eMerges Approach

Geographic Space still lacks the semantics allowing a unified view of spatial data. Indeed, as a unique but all encompassing domain, it presents specificities that Geospatial Applications are still unable to handle. Moreover, to be useful, new spatial applications need to match to human cognitive abilities of spatial representation and reasoning. In this context, eMerges, an approach to geospat...

Web Services as XML Data Sources in Enterprise Information Integration

More and more systems provide data through web service interfaces and these data have to be integrated with the legacy relational databases of the enterprise. The integration is usually done with enterprise information integration systems which provide a uniform query language to all information sources, therefore the XML data sources of Web services having a procedural access interface have to...