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21st IEEE International Conference on Distributed Computing Systems (ICDCS'01)
Open Metadata Formats: Efficient XML-Based Communication for Heterogeneous Distributed Systems
Mesa, AZ
April 16-April 19
ISBN: 0-7695-1077-9
Patrick Widener, Georgia Institute of Technology
Karsten Schwan, Georgia Institute of Technology
Greg Eisenhauer, Georgia Institute of Technology
Abstract: Definition and translation of metadata is incorporated in all systems that exchange structured data. We observe that the manipulation of this metadata can be decomposed into three separate steps: discovery, binding of program objects to the metadata, and marshaling of data to and from wire formats. We have designed a method of representing message formats in XML, using datatypes available in the XML Schema specification. We have implemented a tool, xml2wire, that uses such metadata and exploits this decomposition in order to provide flexible metadata definition facilities for an efficient binary communications mechanism. We also observe that the use of xml2wire makes possible such flexibility without intolerable performance effects.
Citation:
Patrick Widener, Karsten Schwan, Greg Eisenhauer, "Open Metadata Formats: Efficient XML-Based Communication for Heterogeneous Distributed Systems," icdcs, pp.0739, 21st IEEE International Conference on Distributed Computing Systems (ICDCS'01), 2001
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