Abstract: Disclosed is a system and method for communicating confidential information in a resource friendly manner between an application and a database using an application programming interface, API. The method establishes first and second socket connections between the application and the database in an API connection between the application and the database. The first socket connection is arranged to be secure and the second socket connection is arranged to be non-secure. Information is then communicated through the first or second socket connection based on whether the information is identified as being confidential information or not. The evaluation of confidentiality may be undertaken at the client side of a JDBC or ODBC layer without putting any extra pressure on the database server side.

Abstract: Disclosed is a method of generating an electronic document from a plurality of electronic documents, comprising providing a database comprising a plurality of electronic documents, each of said documents comprising semantically organized information portions; parsing the plurality of documents to extract semantic descriptors from said documents, each semantic descriptor relating to one of said information portions; displaying an overview of the extracted semantic descriptors for selection by a user; receiving user-selected extracted semantic descriptors; extracting the information portions relating to the user-selected semantic descriptors from the plurality of electronic documents; and combining said extracted portions into a further electronic document. The method may be implemented in a computer program product, which may form part of a data processing system.

Abstract: Disclosed is a system and method for communicating confidential information in a resource friendly manner between an application and a database using an application programming interface, API. The method establishes first and second socket connections between the application and the database in an API connection between the application and the database. The first socket connection is arranged to be secure and the second socket connection is arranged to be non-secure. Information is then communicated through the first or second socket connection based on whether the information is identified as being confidential information or not. The evaluation of confidentiality may be undertaken at the client side of a JDBC or ODBC layer without putting any extra pressure on the database server side.