NDLI: Database wrappers development: towards automatic generation

Content Provider	IEEE Xplore Digital Library
Author	Thiran, P. Hainaut, J.-L. Houben, G.-J.
Copyright Year	2005
Description	Author affiliation: Tech. Univ. Eindhoven, Netherlands (Thiran, P.)
Abstract	Wrapping databases allows them to be reused in formerly unplanned contexts, such as web-based applications or federated systems. Indeed, a wrapper can provide external clients of an existing (legacy) database with a neutral interface and augmented capabilities. However, except in simplistic cases where the wrapper and the database schemas are similar, the wrapper must implement complex mappings: it must translate queries from the wrapper data manipulation language to the database primitives, and, conversely, translate extracted data into the external wrapper format. We have developed a generic schema mapping framework in which wrappers can be specified formally and generated automatically. This framework comprises a high-level generic data model and a set of schema transformations defined for this model. This reference model makes it possible to specify different data models in a uniform formalism. Mappings between schemas are expressed as sequences of reversible schema transformations. We show how these transformations can be used to translate data and queries between two schemas and hence to generate as much as possible of the code of the wrappers. The generation is supported by DB-MAIN, a wide-spectrum CASE tool.
Sponsorship	Reengineering Forum (REF) IEEE CS Tech. Council on Software Eng. (TCSE) Univ. of Manchester, School of Informatics
Starting Page	207
Ending Page	216
File Size	260533
Page Count	10
File Format	PDF
ISBN	0769523048
ISSN	15345351
DOI	10.1109/CSMR.2005.22
Language	English
Publisher	Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers, Inc. (IEEE)
Publisher Date	2005-03-21
Publisher Place	UK
Access Restriction	Subscribed
Rights Holder	Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers, Inc. (IEEE)
Subject Keyword	Relational databases Data models Wrapping Data systems XML Data mining Computer aided software engineering Database languages Proposals Computer architecture
Content Type	Text
Resource Type	Article

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