A Web Service Architecture for Bidirectional Updating

We propose a Web service architecture for achieving bidirectional updating. This architecture consists of three tiers: clients, a Bi-X bidirectional transformation engine, and some content servers accessible through the Internet. The benefit of using this architecture is that users can harness the power of bidirectional transformations without the burden of installing and maintaining the bidirectional language package. We give several examples to demonstrate the usefulness of this architecture. Users can use this architecture to implement their own applications.