Architecture
Open architecture features include the following:
- Cross-Platform Graphical Interface
- Uses Java ‘Swing’ components
- Same code works on Windows, Linux, Mac systems
- Uses Web Standard Communication Protocols
- Uses HTTP protocols to communicate with standard servlet based web server
- XML data encoding used for information transfer
- Use of XML/XPath
- XPath searches used for searching local XML documents (avoids need for local relational database)
- XPath queries sent to network catalog for searches
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