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Nekovei, R. ; Texas A&M Univ., Kingville, TX, USA

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This paper presents how a client-server system can be used to create an efficient and interoperable
data delivery system for accessing local and remote data through various existing data analysis tools.
The system is based on a a series of servers that provide data over the network through a data access
protocol (DAP). Each server will read the data from its original format and deliver it to the client
according to the DAP specifications. New client software can be developed around this DAP and
existing software packages can become a client by a re-link. During the re-link the standard application
programmer interface (API) library is substituted with a surrogate API library which has been developed
with the DAP. Therefore, the translation, selection, extraction, and transport of the data is hidden from
the client software. Basically, each client software sees the data available from all the servers as local
files in its native format where the file names are changed to a fully qualified Uniform Resource Locator
(URL). The fully qualified URL adds power and flexibility to the system by not only simplifying where to
access the data, but also by providing a general mechanism for passing arguments to the server side
functions which extract, process, and convert the data on the server before delivering it to the client
Published in:
Software Engineering for Parallel and Distributed Systems, 1999. Proceedings. International
Symposium on
Date of Conference:
1999
Page(s):
190 - 196

Conference Location :
Los Angeles, CA

Meeting Date :
17 May 1999-18 May 1999

Digital Object Identifier :

10.1109/PDSE.1999.779751

Print ISBN:
0-7695-0191-5
INSPEC Accession Number:
6320370

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