US Patent 9613117 Declarative driver

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.