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+# The widgets
+
+Applications are packaged and delivered in a digitally signed container
+named *widget*. A widget contains:
+
+- the application and its data
+- a configuration file *config.xml*
+- signature files
+
+The format of widgets is described by W3C (World Wide Web Consortium)
+technical recommendations:
+
+- [Packaged Web Apps (Widgets)](http://www.w3.org/TR/widgets)
+  (note: now deprecated)
+
+- [XML Digital Signatures for Widgets](http://www.w3.org/TR/widgets-digsig)
+
+Note that the technical recommendation
+[Packaged Web Apps (Widgets)](http://www.w3.org/TR/widgets)
+is now obsolete (since 11 october 2018).
+It implies that a new format of widgets can be proposed in replacement.
+
+
+The format is enough flexible to include the description of permissions
+and dependencies required or provided by the application.
+
+Signature make possible to allow or deny permissions required by the
+application based on certificates of signers.
+
+A chain of trust in the creation of certificates allows a hierarchical
+structuring of permissions.
+
+It also adds the description of dependency to other service because AGL
+programming model emphasis micro-services architecture design.
+