1. A system employed by a first application for supporting concurrent operation of a plurality of network compatible applications, comprising: an entitlement processor for authorizing user access to said first application in response to validation of user identification information; and a communication processor for communicating a session initiation request to a managing application to initiate generation of a session identifier particular to a user initiated session and for use by a plurality of concurrently operating applications to uniquely identify said user initiated session in response to validation of user identification information.