Abstract: A system and method for building a driver are disclosed. In one embodiment, the system includes one or more processors and a memory storing instructions that, when executed by the processor, cause the system to: obtain an interface description; obtain at least one mapping rule; operate a flow controller that controls a flow of operations, the operations using one or more of the interface description and the at least one mapping rule; obtain a protocol adapter; and implement access to a data source based on the operation of the flow controller using the obtained protocol adapter.

Abstract: A system and method for building a driver are disclosed. In one embodiment, the system includes one or more processors and a memory storing instructions that, when executed by the processor, cause the system to: obtain an interface description; obtain at least one mapping rule; operate a flow controller that controls a flow of operations, the operations using one or more of the interface description and the at least one mapping rule; obtain a protocol adapter; and implement access to a data source based on the operation of the flow controller using the obtained protocol adapter.

Abstract: A system and method that provides a mechanism for tracing the history of changes made to the content of a document by a user. The system allows a user to open an existing document, to make one or more changes to the content, to generate meta-data describing the user's intent for making the changes to the content, and to store both the changed content and the meta-data in a new document, while retaining the content of the prior document. The system automatically generates meta-data indicative of the identity of the prior document, and stores this meta-data in association with the new document at the time that document is stored or saved. If the prior document already has meta-data indicating its identity embedded within it, then the system accesses the meta-data from the prior document for subsequent storage in association with the new document.