Nexus Card SDK is a set of software components and configuration tools which implement all functionality to produce professional ID cards. You can integrate Card SDK into your own application through web services.'

Interfaces, development platforms, and development languages

Card SDK includes an interface based on a web service. The web service offers easy integration into applications that originally does not support the use of ActiveX (for example, Java or HTML based applications). The web service is primarily intended as an easy to use inter-process communication interface, which runs on the same machine as your application does. But it also supports a distributed system architecture in which a separate PC for card production may be used. In this case, your application communicates with the web service on this separate PC over a local area network (LAN). This even allows a non Windows operation system like Linux as platform for your application.

The web service is based on SOAP* but is also available in a simple RESTful style. See Introduction to API for more information.

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The application programming interface (API) of the SDK uses a web service on SOAP* and REST technology. This allows a straightforward usage by all common software frameworks and development languages. Still available is the set of ActiveX components which was introduced as interface of previous SDK versions. However, for new developments we highly recommend to use the web service interface.

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