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  <a name="Overview"></a><div class="header1">Architecture Overview</div>   
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  <p>Metacat is implemented as a Java Servlet, and so communicates using basic
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  HTTP protocol semantics.  The figure below shows the basic structure of
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  the Metacat architecture. A well defined interface for inserting, 
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  updating, deleting, querying, and transforming (using XSL) XML documents
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  supported mechanism for interacting with Metacat, but have not yet
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