Data Interchange Services

Data interchange services provide specialized support for the interchange of information between applications and the external environment. These services are designed to handle data interchange between applications on the same platform and applications on different (heterogeneous) platforms. An analogous set of services exists for object-oriented data interchange, which can be found under data interchange services and externalization services in the paragraph on Object Services.

The following functional areas are currently supported mainly by application software, but are progressing towards migration into the Application Platform:


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