System and method for integrating disparate data sources

1 . A method of implementing a business integration application having a business process that may access disparate data sources, the method comprising:

for a first type of business activity, accessing a first class of data sources using .NET™ web services; and

for a second type of business activity, accessing a second class of data sources using Java web services.

2 . The method of claim 1 , wherein said first class of data sources includes at least one of rich text format (RTF), Excel®, and portable data file (PDF) document file types.

3 . The method of claim 1 , wherein said second class of data sources includes at least one of a database, real time data from streaming data, and navigation and extraction of network documents.

4 . The method of claim 1 , further comprising: for said first type of activity, utilizing a first service invocation bus interface and for said second type of activity utilizing a second service invocation bus interface.

5 . The method of claim 1 , wherein said business process includes activities having said first class of activities and said second class of activities.

6 . The method of claim 1 , wherein said business process is implemented in a business process execution language (BPEL).

7 . The method of claim 1 , further comprising: formatting accessed data.

8 . A method of implementing a business integration application having a business process that may access disparate data sources, the method comprising:

determining whether an activity in a business process belongs to a first type of activity that may be serviced by .NET™ web services to access a first class of data sources or a second type of activity that may be serviced by Java web services to access a second class of data sources;

for said first type of activity, accessing data sources using .NET™ web services; and

for said second type of activity, accessing data sources using Java web services.

9 . The method of claim 8 , wherein said first class of data sources includes at least one of rich text format (RTF), Excel®, and portable data file (PDF) document file types.

10 . The method of claim 8 , wherein said second class of data sources includes at least one of a database, real time data from streaming data, and navigation and extraction of network documents.

11 . A system, comprising:

means for accessing a first class of data sources using .NET™ web services;

means for accessing a source of streaming data using Java web services; and

means for accessing web navigation and extraction using Java web services.

12 . The system of claim 11 , further comprising: means for access a database using Java web services.

13 . The system of claim 11 , further comprising: means for generating a business process having at least one activity requiring at least one source of data.