Distributed information
management with XML and Web services
Serge
Abiteboul, INRIA-Rocquencourt, France
XML and Web services are revolutioning the automatic management
of distributed information somewhat in the same way HTML, Web browser
and search engines modified human access to world wide information
management. We discuss how this is changing distributed data
management. We present Active XML that is based on embedding Web
service calls inside XML documents. We mention novel research issues in
this setting.
