System for Querying and Consuming Web-Based Data and Associated Methods

摘要

A web data source includes data to be queried. A query language (QL) web service is defined to expose a QL for specification of the web data source and one or more operations to be performed on the web data source. Requirements specific to the web data source for accessing and performing operations on the web data source are abstracted through the exposed QL. A QL table is associated with the web data source. The QL table is accessible through a universal resource locator (URL). The QL table includes binding data which binds the web data source to the QL web service. The binding data includes instructions to the QL web service with regard to creating URLs to access and retrieve data from the web data source.