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The platform used includes a Sun Server's architecture, a SOLARIS operating system, a web server, programming languages, databases, development utilities and various runtime libraries.

Only Open Source Software has been used.

• Server Hardware
  Sun Solaris-9 server
   
• Operating System
  Solaris-9
   
• Programming Languages
  - Java (JSDK 2 build 1.4.2_04)
  - PHP 5.3.5
   
• Development utilities/Technology
  - HTML-Kit
  - AJAX (JavaScript / XML / PHP)
  - Eclipse 3.2.1
   
• Runtime libraries and third-part APIs
  - Lucene Search Engine 2.0.0
  - PerX Search Toolkit
  - Runtime JARs and APIs bundled within a standard installation of Java.
  - XML parsers: xercesImpl.jar, xalan.jar and xmlParserAPIs.jar
  - Smarty PHP Templates 2.6.18
  - MagpieRSS (expat) RSS parser 0.61
   
• Third-part Javascript code
  - SpryCollapsiblePanel.js (for collapsing boxes)
   
• Databases
  - MySQL 4.1.22
   
• Web server
  Apache 2.2.4