Patent ID: 6757720
Filing Date: 2004-06-29
Classification: G06F

Abstract:
A mechanism for managing a plurality of profile data structures in a distributed computing environment, the mechanism comprising:a core profile service engine having a number of predefined built-in functions for creating, storing, instantiating, or manipulating profile data structures, each of the profile data structures comprising profile information for a user entity in the distributed computing environment; a first pluggable interface within the core profile service and supporting runtime binding to remote protocol adapters, the remote protocol adapters providing data transport mechanisms compatible with communication links between each of the user entities transmitting a request to the mechanism; a second pluggable interface within the core profiling service and supporting runtime binding to external datastore plug-ins; and a third pluggable interface within the core profiling service and supporting runtime binding to external service plug-ins, the external service plug-ins comprising functions for manipulating profile data structures.