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


Vol. 10,  No. 1, pp. 143-152, Feb.  2003
10.3745/KIPSTD.2003.10.1.143


PDF
  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 API 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 creating the same type of XML documents for 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 XMLMD, 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 displays data in various formats such as XML, HTML, Excel, and graph.

  Statistics


  Cite this article

[IEEE Style]

E. J. Bae and M. Kim, "A Web Services-based Client OLAP API and Its Application to Cube Browsing," The KIPS Transactions:PartD, vol. 10, no. 1, pp. 143-152, 2003. DOI: 10.3745/KIPSTD.2003.10.1.143.

[ACM Style]

Eun Joo Bae and Myung Kim. 2003. A Web Services-based Client OLAP API and Its Application to Cube Browsing. The KIPS Transactions:PartD, 10, 1, (2003), 143-152. DOI: 10.3745/KIPSTD.2003.10.1.143.