11. A document personalization production system, comprising: a preexisting production manager that controls the production of personalized documents; one or more document personalization hardware in communication with the preexisting production manager to obtain instructions and data to produce personalized documents; an application framework connected to the production manager and to the one or more document personalization hardware to provide at least the necessary interfaces and plugins so that the production manager can enable delivery of data and instructions to implement functions not previously implemented on the document personalization production system without reprogramming the preexisting production manager; and a new service module located on a server, wherein the application framework is configured to integrate the new service module in the document personalization production system without reprogramming the preexisting production manager, wherein one or more document personalization hardware are configured to be registered to the application framework by communicating a name, a capability, a control system, and a metadata to the application framework in order to execute the new service module.
11. A document personalization production system, comprising: a preexisting production manager that controls the production of personalized documents; one or more document personalization hardware in communication with the preexisting production manager to obtain instructions and data to produce personalized documents; an application framework connected to the production manager and to the one or more document personalization hardware to provide at least the necessary interfaces and plugins so that the production manager can enable delivery of data and instructions to implement functions not previously implemented on the document personalization production system without reprogramming the preexisting production manager; and a new service module located on a server, wherein the application framework is configured to integrate the new service module in the document personalization production system without reprogramming the preexisting production manager, wherein one or more document personalization hardware are configured to be registered to the application framework by communicating a name, a capability, a control system, and a metadata to the application framework in order to execute the new service module. 12. The document personalization production system of claim 11 , wherein the preexisting production manager executes on a first server and at least portions of the application framework execute on a second server connected to the first server on a communications network.