Component communication and data adaptation

Predefined components often require adaption to interoperate,
especially an adaption of the data
they exchange. This paper
presents an XML-based approach to the data adaption problem.
It
covers serialization of objects to XML, their transformation
with XSLT, as well as deserialization,
i.e., parsing and
reconstruction of the transformed objects. We statically analyze
classes
to generate specific document types and allow static
preprocessing. Compared to normal interpreted
XML processing,
this approach eliminates introspection overhead, thus
accelerating the
components’ communication.