XML

Extensible Markup Language (XML) is a simple, very flexible text format derived from SGML.Originally designed to meet the challenges of large-scale electronic publishing, XML is playing an increasingly important role in the exchange of a wide variety of data on the Web and elsewhere. XML is the glue that binds applications across the web. It is one the most powerful technologies to power the next generation service oriented web. Widely adopted by most of the popular vendors like Microsoft, Oracle, IBM, Sun Microsystems, XML is becoming the de facto standard for for exchanging information, conducting transactions and syndicating content across the web.

iMorph technologies in InfoMinder and Watch360 provide an XML based SOAP interface for integration into other applications. In addition, HyperScope, a prototype built for Bootstrap Alliance is completely based on XML and related technologies like XSL, XPATH, XPointer etc.

RDF

Resource Description Framework (RDF) is a standard for describing resources on the web. It is a formal data model from the World Wide Web Consortium (W3C) for machine understandable metadata used to provide standard descriptions of web resources. It uses eXtensible Markup Language (XML). It is similar in intent to the Dublin Core, although perhaps broader in its scope and purpose.

iMorph uses RDF to power the Link/Annotation database used by HyperScope. This provides semantic linking capability across documents and provides facilities for link type extension.

Zope

Zope is an open source application server for building content managements, intranets, portals, and custom applications. The Zope community consists of hundreds of companies and thousands of developers all over the world, working on building the platform and Zope applications. Zope is written in Python, a highly-productive, object-oriented scripting language.

Zope is the Application Server used for building collaboratories for OpenCourse, Amtech's Center for Collaboration and Bootstrap Alliance portal.

Plone

Plone is a free, open source Content Management System. The focus of Plone is to provide value at every level of an organization. It comes with a workflow engine, pre-configured security and roles, a set of content types and multi-lingual support. There are many developers, writers and testers from all over the world, contributing to Plone everyday. Plone is based on the Content Management Framework. Plone is built on top of the Zope content management framework.

Plone is the content management and document management framework used for building OpenCourse, Amtech's Center for Collaboration and Bootsrap Alliance Portal.

Java/Python

In addition to the frameworks and application servers specified above, iMorph builds all products and solutions using Java or Python. Java is the language used for building InfoMinder, Watch360 and HyperScope. Python is the language for building components of the collaborative framework.