An ODBC CORBA-Based Data Mediation Service.
Paul L. Bergstein · 2006
A serious problem facing many organizations today is the need to use information from multiple data sources that have been developed separately. Conflicts in the structure and semantics of these disparate data sources create major obstacles to effective use. We have previously described our data mediation approach to this problem and our implementation of an RMI-based mediation service with JDBC drivers. Here we report our implementation of a CORBA-based mediation service with ODBC drivers, making mediation convenient for a wider class of applications. An application can switch to any data source registered with the mediator simply by plugging in our drivers and specifying the mediation service as the data source. No other code needs to be rewritten. 1.