Description Linda Chan 2007-09-21 21:48:37 EDT

The ODA framework currently provides support for a consumer application to retrieve and process data in the form of rows and columns. An ODA data provider for a multi-dimensional data source would have to flatten its data into a tabular result set. That works well for those ODA-compliant consumer applications that want to consume tabular data sets. However, there are other types of applications, such as OLAP tools, that would prefer to consume data in a multi-dimensional result set. This project aims to extend the ODA API to provide design-time and runtime support of multi-dimensional result sets.