Open Source in Finance Forum London 2024

There is a strong desire in the FDC3 community to bring FDC3 to web browsers and several vendors with products, but there's a problem… FDC3 began as an initiative to "develop specific protocols and taxonomies" to advance the ability of desktop applications in financial workflows to interoperate in a plug-and-play fashion, without prior bi-lateral agreements", and has largely succeeded! However, there are assumptions baked into current versions of FDC3 (e.g. the presence of a desktop container that can inject code into web apps, that web apps don't navigate to different URLs and become different apps, that the Desktop Agent knows the config and identity of each app a priori. To bring FDC3 to Web browsers, securely and without firms and app developers having to coordinate on using the same vendor libs, rather than just the open-source FDC3 library, those assumptions need to be reevaluated and additions made to the FDC3 Standard. The 'FDC3 for Web Browsers Discussion group' has worked hard on those additions. This talk provides an overview of proposed changes to enable web apps that can run in any Desktop Agent, whether it was designed to run in a browser or a container.