Use Case 8 : Interoperability between existing applications

Workflow 1 :

Create a toolbar to facilitate launching of thin and thick client applications. Based on entitlements the user can click on a toolbar button which will either launch an application

or based on application discovery will request focus by publishing a message to the application.The toolbar helps to present a unified and consistent interface across all desktop financial applications.

Also would like to present and launch from a list of desktop applications from internal company departments using the FDC3 application directory.  

Workflow 2:

Create a heartbeat mechanism to discover active desktop applications. All desktop applications will periodically publish a heartbeat message request and subscribers are informed. Subscribers may display an icon representing up/down status and versioning of all desktop applications running under the openfin runtime mesh.

Workflow 3 :

Many financial companies already have a lot of existing thick client code that can be re-used whenever an action is performed. As an example a thin client alerting window could be

created which displays a number of alerts for a set of asset classes. Each entry could contain action buttons which when clicked would publish a message to the appropriate thick

client application to handle the action. The action may start with validating the action request and display a dialog which ultimately sends a command to an OMS service to handle the operation.

In this way desktop applications can re-use from an existing code base.