SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR ACCESSING MULTIPLE DATA SOURCES BY MOBILE APPLICATIONS

摘要

A system for accessing multiple data sources by mobile applications, the system comprising an application gateway server (118) including a message broker for communicating between the system and a mobile device (102) and a message transformer (226) for communicating with a plurality of backend servers (108) having different data source infrastructures. A method of configuring an application gateway server (118) for accessing multiple data sources by mobile applications (102), the method comprising the steps of acquiring a desired application bundle (502), building a communication model in dependence upon the desired application bundle (504), retrieving a list of data sources from the application bundle (506), and generating a mapping of data source to a connector type and data structure. A method of accessing multiple data sources by mobile applications (102), the method comprising the steps of determining a required data structure for a received message, building a representation in dependence upon the required data structure (608); acquiring a corresponding connector type (610), and accessing a data source associated with the connector type (612; 613; 614).