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<div class="header1">Table of Contents</div>
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<div class="toc1"><a href="#Overview">Architecture Overview</a></div>
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<div class="toc1"><a href="#Sections">Architectural Sections</a></div>
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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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is presented. We would like to add the DOM API as an alternative
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supported mechanism for interacting with Metacat, but have not yet
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<li> <a href="./service-base.html">Service Based Architecture</a></li>
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