Resources

• Model-View-Controller (MVC)
  
  • Organizes an interactive application into three separate modules: one for the application model with its data representation and business logic, the second for views that provide data presentation and user input, and the third for a controller to dispatch requests and control flow. Most Web-tier application frameworks use some variation of the MVC design pattern.
• Jakarta Struts
  
  • The goal of this project is to provide an open source framework for building Web applications. The core of Struts is a flexible control layer based on standard technologies like Java Servlets, JavaBeans, ResourceBundles, and Extensible Markup Language (XML).
• XML
  
  • Extensible Markup Language (XML) is a simple, very flexible text format derived from SGML (ISO 8879). Originally designed to meet the challenges of large-scale electronic publishing, XML is also playing an increasingly important role in the exchange of a wide variety of data on the Web and elsewhere.
• XSLT
  
  • XSL is a language for expressing stylesheets. It consists of three parts: XSL Transformations (XSLT): a language for transforming XML documents, the XML Path Language (XPath), an expression language used by XSLT to access or refer to parts of an XML document. (XPath is also used by the XML Linking specification). The third part is XSL Formatting Objects: an XML vocabulary for specifying formatting semantics. An XSL stylesheet specifies the presentation of a class of XML documents by describing how an instance of the class is transformed into an XML document that uses the formatting vocabulary.
• PHP
  
  • PHP is a widely-used general-purpose scripting language that is especially suited for Web development and can be embedded into HTML.
• Pear DB/DataObjects
  
  • PEAR is a framework and distribution system for reusable PHP components.
• ADODB
  
  • PHP's database access functions are not standardised. This creates a need for a database class library to hide the differences between the different database API's (encapsulate the differences) so we can easily switch databases.
• Smarty Templates
  
  • Smarty is a template engine for PHP. Smarty provides your basic variable substitution and dynamic block functionality, and also takes a step further to be a "smart" template engine, adding features such as configuration files, template functions, variable modifiers, and making all of this functionality as easy as possible to use for both programmers and template designers.
• Flash MX
  
  • Macromedia Flash MX is the fastest way to create rich Internet content and applications with a better return on investment. Powerful video, multimedia, and application development features allow the creation of rich user interfaces, online advertising, e-learning courses, and enterprise application front-ends.