MONITORING SYSTEM FOR GENERAL-PURPOSE COMPUTERS

摘要

Embodiments of the invention are concerned with a monitoring system for general-purpose computers, and provide a method of monitoring processes on one or more general-purpose computers, said method comprising: providing a host data processing module; adaptively updating the host module with one or more additional data processing modules; and processing a document comprising a plurality of separate data portions, said data portions being intended for processing by different data processing modules, the document processing comprising parsing the document in accordance with a plurality of rules so as to validate the document, wherein the method comprises retrieving a subset of rules, in respect of at least one said data processing module, and building said plurality of rules from said subset. The present invention therefore provides a method of carrying out processing of documents using an adaptable set of data processing modules which act on different portions of the document. A single document can then be sent and/or stored on behalf of and/or processed by the plurality of data processing modules, thereby increasing efficiency of processing and network resource utilization.