Re: Use case: OrderTracking-ConsumerAccess

On Thu, Mar 25, 2004 at 08:25:46PM -0500, Eric Prud'hommeaux wrote:
> FredCo sells a variety of products to consumers and maintains an order
> tracking database to track customer orders. The database is a
> conventional relational database with a schema normalized for their
> application

A consumer, Chip Thompson, wants to check on the status of his
order. His money-minding application, QuickWeb, supports a widely
adopted schema to track pending orders. It communicates a query to
http://fredco.example.org/RDF using DAWG-QL.

The endpoint trivially translates this query into a query that maps to
its internal structure (either a graph that corresponds to the actual
schema of their database, or a layer on top that is used to insulate
the enterprise programs from the implementation details). The endpoint
executes the query, re-maps the results to the outside schema before
giving them back to QuickWeb.

Chip plans to attend a party to show off the item which has just been
shippedq.

Sorry, no specific implementation on this one.
-- 
-eric

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