|
|
-
Understanding Mapping to Data Services
Beyond Object-to-Relational mapping, toward dynamic composition and Object-to-Service mapping. - Technical Overview
Data and Services integration explained from Java and .Net client applications.
highlights Xcalia's
Data Access Vision
Cool Vendors in Data Management and Integration, Gartner research report, March 2006.
reviews Xcalia
"Information Fabric 2.0: Enterprise Information Virtualization Gets Real", April 2007, quotes Xcalia among innovative software vendors delivering enterprise information solutions.
Patents
Xcalia has had a patent pending since September 22nd, 2005 about transparently accessing services from applications.
This patent covers our new service mapping (that could be seen as an extension of the notion of object/relational mapping to any service-oriented data source, including web services, mainframes transactions, anything with a JCA connector, a JMS connector, etc.).
The patent also covers metadata defining how services behave.
This metadata will be used at runtime to find which services to call in order to reflect actions of business transactions.
Finally, the patent also covers the notion of dynamic composition of services; that is, a way to call the right sequences of services at runtime in order to satisfy a business transaction without any requirement to describe that sequence during the development stage.
Contact