SOFTWARE ARCHITECTURE FOR INTERACTION WITH DYNAMIC DATA SOURCES AND ROLE BASED ACCESS CONTROL

摘要

The invention uses dynamically generated and collated Extensible Markup Language (XML) data to enable access to disparate data sources in a uniform way. The invention uses dynamic data source resolution to generate data requests on behalf of a specific application interface (1002). Role based access control is employed to filter the request based on pre-defined permissions employing XML node addresses. Then the invention relies upon a dynamic XML generator to receive the data response from the Internet (1004) and collate XML data from the multiplicity of available data sources taken from services like a Database service (1206) or Email Service (1208). The dynamic XML generator uses the collated data to dynamically create a uniform formatted representation of the received data. The invention understands a data source as any single software entity the dynamic XML generator can interact with to receive application specific data in an XML format.