CourtCanada's
technology platform has been developed from the ground up to best
meet the needs of the legal process.
CourtCanada
is an advocate for proven "open source" technologies, and
CourtCanada's applications have been engineered using open source
technologies that have demonstrated themselves to be reliable and
production-ready. Open source technologies can provide the following
benefits:
- they
reduce the costs associated with system development, operation, and
maintenance;
- they
allow a degree of design flexibility and responsiveness to
ever-evolving business requirements that are not typically
achievable by systems built using "closed source" proprietary
technologies, because of license restrictions and other inherent
limitations on customizing proprietary technologies;
- they
protect against system obsolescence by enabling individual system
components to be upgraded or replaced as needed; and
- they
allow for easier integration with other information systems.
CourtCanada's
applications are developed in compliance with the Java 2 Platform
Enterprise Edition ("J2EE"). They are capable of running on any
J2EE-compliant application server, and incorporate open source
components such as Apache Tomcat, MySQL and JAVA, all high
performance industry standards.
In
addition to its superior performance, open source technologies allow
CourtCanada to "mix and match" application components to ensure
that each solution incorporates technologies best suited for the
particular business case.
Platform compatibility
J2EE
specifications have established the standard for platform
compatibility. CourtCanada's applications are J2EE compliant, and are
capable of running on any J2EE-compliant application server.
Platform compatibility is required to promote access to justice and
to ensure that technology deployment does not create new barriers to
access to justice. Cross-platform compatibility should always be a
major consideration in the selection and/or design of IT
applications, services and infrastructure components, and should be
part of featured service offerings on web pages and other such
materials in any case where the client requires a system that will be
accessible to and usable by third parties whose IT infrastructures
may vary widely.