THIRD PARTY MANAGEMENT PLATFORMS INTEGRATION

摘要

In a method of importing data into a data processing system from a third par ty platform, for each physical object an interface object having a canonical fo rm mappable to an underlying, externally invisible form in said data processing system is first created. The interface object has a set of permissible extensions mappable to said externally invisible form. New interface objects can be added by deriving new mappings from said extensions. The data processing system is thus decoupled from the third party platform so that th e data processing system can easily interface with multivendor products.