Technical Specifications

Scalable, Robust Architecture

ITM is a robust application based on Java 2 Enterprise Edition (J2EE), and leverages the Enterprise Java Bean architecture to guarantee transactional integrity. ITM uses the distributed and clustering features of J2EE servers to guarantee scalability via load balancing and high-reliability via fail-over mechanisms. ITM can communicate and synchronize with other information system applications using the Java Message Service (JMS) and Web Services.

Supported J2EE servers include BEA Weblogic, IBM Websphere, Oracle Application Server, and JBoss.

Large Datastore

The ITM database can handle several million entities with their semantic relations and attributes while maintaining mission critical response times. ITM also leverages its underlying database's full-text indexing and XML storage features to maximize its semantic storage and query performances and functions.

Supported database management systems include Oracle 9i, 10g and PostgreSQL 8.x.

Open Architecture

ITM is an open, standards based solution leveraging XML, Java and Web Services. The web based user interface guarantees access from any browser, while the Java and Web Service APIs permit easy integration in enterprise information systems. The APIs also allow creation of ontology based semantic applications, whether thick or thin client.