Solving the Data Inter-operability Problem Using a Universal Data Access Broker

other. However like translation of human languages this solution falls short of the ultimate. We want the translator to be dynamically available. We want the translator not just to literally transpose but to deduce or infer semantics. We want the translator to understand all representations, including new variants or dialects as they are added. We want the translator to operate in real time (on the fly). Last but of course not least, we want to inter-operate with the translator in the representation of our choice, not one that the translator imposes on us because it will only support certain combinations of representations. Another human tendency is to continually attempt to solve a problem by inventing the ultimate representation for persistent data. For the problem of data inter-operability this tendency manifests as a series of generations of database technology with corresponding persistent representations for stored data. In theory translating all required data in