Data Exchange Formats
Key Facts
Abbreviation
DEFs
Pronunciation
/ˈdætə ɪksˈʧeɪnʤ ˈfɔrˌmæts/
Category
Computing
Related Field
-1
Examples in Context
- Web-based applications, service-oriented architectures ( SOA ), and industry-specific data exchange formats all rely heavily on XML to represent critical business data.
- First companies in the industry are moving to open data exchange formats such as OFDA-XML.
- The operation systems, database interfaces and data exchange formats supported by GIS softwares are carefully compared and analyzed.
- To make all these business subsystems work together, we analyzed data interfaces for these logistics business subsystems and defined the system data exchange formats using XML language. Also we implemented mechanism of data exchange between subsystems.
- However, the heterogeneity of data that resulted from inconsistent programming language and system environment, non-uniform data exchange formats and delivery mechanisms makes it difficult to actually share data.