Morpho
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Technical Highlights

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