PROFILE SERVICE ARCHITECTURE

摘要

A mechanism for managing a plurality of profile data structures where each profile data structure comprising a hierarchical structure of attributes. The mechanism includes a core profile service engine having a number of predefined built-in functions. A first pluggable interface within the core profile service supports runtime binding to remote protocol adapters. A second pluggable interface within the core profiling service supports runtime binding to external datastore plug-ins. A third pluggable interface within the core profiling service supports runtime binding to external service plug-ins where the external service plug-ins provide functions for manipulating profile data structures in addition to built in functions provided by the core profile service.