چکیده (انگلیسی):

Six applications which are based on mediator approach have
been reviewed in this study. In practice, The mediator is used to integrate
and access data from different data sources. The important characteristics
for the implementation of mediator approach have been identified. This
include types of data, file format and object data. These characteristics
together with the advantages and the disadvantages of each
implementation mediator approach described in section 4. This is
important for other researchers to do the literature review. Indeed, this
study highlights important issues that need to be addressed before future
directions for the research in the area of database integration based on
mediator is channelled.