Platform independent configuration of multiple network services

A data processing system for configuring a network services protocol implementation, the system comprising:

• a development tool;
• a platform independent configuration builder comprising program code enabled to generate a platform independent configuration for a network services protocol implementation;
• a platform specific configuration builder comprising program code enabled to transform the platform independent configuration for the network services protocol implementation into a platform specific configuration for a selected target node;
• and,
• a data store of pre-configured reusable configuration objects usable by the platform independent configuration builder to generate the platform independent configuration for the network services protocol implementation.

A computer program product comprising a computer usable medium embodying computer usable program code for configuring a network services protocol implementation, the computer program product including:

• computer usable program code for configuring a platform independent configuration for a network services protocol implementation;
• computer usable program code for selecting a target node to receive a deployment of the network services protocol implementation;
• computer usable program code for transforming the configured platform independent configuration into a platform specific configuration for the target node;
• and,
• computer usable program code for deploying the transformed platform specific configuration onto the target node.