- Open Platform
In software and web-based architectures, an Open Platform describes a software system which has published external programming interfaces that allow using the software to function in other ways than the original programmer intended, without requiring modification of the source code. Using these interfaces, typically known as an
Application Programming Interface (API), a 3rd party could integrate with the platform to add functionality.An open platform implies that the vendor allows, and perhaps supports, the ability to do this. Using an open platform a developer could add features or functionality that the platform vendor hadn't completed or hadn't conceived of. An open platform may allow the developer to change existing functionality.
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Service Oriented Architecture allows applications, running as services, to be accessed in a distributed computing environment, such as between multiple systems or across the internet. A major focus of Web services is to make functional building blocks accessible over standard Internet protocols that are independent from platforms and programming languages. An open SOA platform would allow anyone to access and interact with these building blocks.Related to
Open Standards , an open platform means the platform is publicly available and has various rights to use associated with it.ee also
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Application Programming Interface
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