Component Communication and Data Adaptation

Components from different sources are often non-interoperable. This is often due to data mismatches. This paper presents an XML-based approach to the data adaptation problem. It covers serialization of objects to XML, their transformation with XSLT, as well as deserialization, i.e., parsing and reconstruction of the transformed objects. We statically analyze classes to generate specific document types and allow static preprocessing. Compared to normal interpreted XML processing, this approach eliminates introspection overhead, thus accelerating the components’ communication.