| 摘要 |
<p>A system (10) and a method are provided for specifying and configuring, together with categorising and classifying, heterogeneous types of multiple data sources (30). The system and method also retrieve search results in accordance with search requests and conditions from at least one of the multiple data sources, for example a relational database management system (RDBMS), a light-weight directory access protocol (LDAP), an extensible mark- up language database (XMLDB), extensible mark-up language (XML) files, hypertext mark-up language (HTML) files, or TEXT files, through an application programming interface (API), or a web service interface such as a simple object access protocol (SOAP).</p> |
