Inventors:
Joel A. Farrell - Ashland MA, US
Jimmy M. Hsu - Austin TX, US
Troy M. Volin - Chapel Hill NC, US
Assignee:
International Business Machines Corporation - Armonk NY
International Classification:
G06F 7/00
G06F 17/00
Abstract:
Despite the availability of mashup editors, people without programming knowledge cannot easily access the data sources to create data feeds. A data feed engine allows a user to create a data feed without protocol and/or formatting knowledge for the data source. The data feed engine automatically builds a search command with search parameters and a data source identity (e. g. , server name, network address, port number, etc. ). The data feed engine also encodes the built search command as a data feed and publishes a link for the data feed in a data feed catalog. After publication, users can access the catalog to combine data feeds, edit data feeds, etc. , and create mashups.