Declarative Mediation in Distributed Systems

The mediation architecture is widely used for bridging heterogeneous data sources. We investigate how such architecture can be extended to embrace information processing services and suggest a framework that supports declarative specification of mediation logic. In this paper we show how our framework can be applied to enrich interface descriptions of distributed objects and to integrate them with other client/server environments.

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