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I-Card Provider
Higgins supports multiple kinds of i-cards with differing characteristics. It does so by using multiple kinds of i-card providers, each of which implements one specific class of i-card. Although all i-cards implement the base "ICard" interface, some may implement one or more of the optional interfaces, and thus provide more or different characteristics.
An I-Card Provider is responsible for
- Instantiating I-Cards that implement the I-Card Interfaces
- Importing I-Cards from one of the supported card data formats. Note: export of a single I-Card is handled by the I-Card itself.
The Higgins project is developing these I-Card Providers:
- CardSpace Managed I-Card Provider
- CardSpace Personal I-Card Provider
- URI Managed I-Card Provider
- URI Personal I-Card Provider