federator

noun

1. Someone or something that is instrumental in the creation of a federation.

   “Its power as an element of character, as an inspiration in art, as a federator of nations and factor of history, is freely admitted; and no place that it can fairly claim in the genesis of society and the regulation of life is denied to it.”

   “There would perhaps be a federator, but it would not be European.”

   “He called the US, “the unwanted federator of an integrated Europe.””

   “The following is a synopsis of the appeal to the people which the prince actually prepared for broadcast over Radio Algiers: He came forward as the federator of French energies.”

2. A component that integrates access to various services.

   “Our extended standard GIS web Service components are integrated into the system through a federator, which is actually a WMS that is extended with capability-aggregating and stateful service capabilities to enable high performance support for responsive GIS applications.”

   “The results of the crawler, the administrative components, and the federator are stored in a database.”

   “The federator now can implement logic that determines where the data is placed.”