Sounds like a very challenging endeavor, borderline
impossible.
Didn??™t you hear this story before? Another technology in recent
years exhibited a similar value proposition, trying to break free
from platform or transport dependencies. That technology is
loosely referred to by the name web services.
Web services constituted a new way of exposing software to a
distributed environment. The key idea behind web services is
that, if the entire industry can agree on a set of common standards
de?¬?ning the key aspects of messaging, direct cross-platform
interoperability is achievable. That vision gathered an
unprecedented number of leaders in the IT industry. In an impressive
collaborative effort, historical competitors set aside
their differences and began a process of speci?¬?cation de?¬?nition
and standardization that is going on still today.
Web services solved many of the challenges related to the attempt
to put into practice the principles behind the Identity
Metasystem. They are platform-agnostic by design, they pay
special attention to security, and they are a technology widely
available in the product offerings of the main IT vendors and in
the Open Source world.
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