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What is the difference between toolkits and web services?

Toolkits offer a series of functions for building a functional logic embedded in the actual business processes. This must be performed for each of the processes that require the functions offered by a specific toolkit. Any minor change to the logic may require that the code be rewritten or, to avoid this, it may need complex configuration methods.

TrustedX is based on common architectural principles-Web Services (WS) and Services Oriented Architectures (SOA)-to offer a homogeneous series of functions as a service ("sign an document", "verify a signature of a document", "encipher/decipher a document", "authenticate and authorise", etc.), so the complexity required by the business logic goes on to reside outside the applications. This simple idea has huge advantages:

  • There is no need to recompile if new standards appear. All that is needed is to incorporate new components to TrustedX for the business processes to be able to use them immediately.
  • The business logic can change at any time without having to change even one code line or recompile.