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http://dx.doi.org/10.3745/KIPSTD.2003.10D.1.143

A Web Services-based Client OLAP API and Its Application to Cube Browsing  

Bae, Eun-Ju (이화여자대학교 대학원 컴퓨터학과)
Kim, Myung (이화여자대학교 컴퓨터학과)
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The KIPS Transactions:PartD / v.10D, no.1, 2003 , pp. 143-152 More about this Journal
Abstract
XML and Web Services draw a lot of attention as standard technologies for data exchange and integration among heterogeneous platforms XML/A, which supports such technologies, is a SOAP based XML APl that facilitates data exchange between a client application and a data analysis engine through the Internet. The fact that the XML format is used for data exchange makes XML/A to be platform-independent. However. client application developers have to go through a tedious Job of treating the same type of XML documents fur downloading data from the server. Also, an XML query language is needed for extracting data from the XML documents sent by the server. In this paper, we present a high level client OLAP API, called DXML, for the client application developers in the windows environment to easily use the OLAP services of XML/A. XMLMD consists of properties and methods needed for OLAP application development. XMLMD is to XML/A what ADOMD is to OLEDB for OLAP. We also present a web OLAP cube browser that is developed using XMLMD. The browser display's data in various formats such as XML, HTML, Excel, and graph.
Keywords
OLAP; OLAP API; Cube Browsing; Web Services;
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