SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR APPLICATION AND RESOURCE DATA INTEGRATION

摘要

A software architecture that provides applications with uniform access to data that is available from heterogeneous data sources. Applications access Liquid data framework (104) through a set of unified XML views that have been derived from the schemas of the underlying data sources. These data sources may include an integrated service provider (114), a third party relational database (116), in house or custom developed applications (118), or a variety of other data-related resources (120) .The liquid data framework utilizes a liquid data engine (110) to process request from an application portal (102) to data sources. Liquid data provides data independence in that applications can write components that do not have to change if an underlying data source changes.