Our Technologies

WestTech developers have many years of experience developing and delivering software solutions to satisfied customers. We are well-versed in a wide variety of technologies which allow us to deliver the solutions you need.

Internet and Web Technologies

We develop our weblications using solid, proven Internet technologies and standards.

W3C Standards

The World Wide Web Consortium (W3C) develops and defines many specifications and standards to which we attept to adhere in order to make our software solutions highly compatible and portable.

• Cascading Style Sheets (CSS)
• CSS Validator - ensures compliance with the CSS standard
• Document Object Model (DOM)
• HyperText Markup Language (HTML)
• HTML Validator - ensures compliance with the HTML standard
• Hypertext Transfer Protocol (HTTP) - the protocol of the World Wide Web
• Portable Network Graphics (PNG) - high-performance, patent-free graphics format
• Extensible Markup Language (XML)

Java Technologies

We use many Java technologies from Sun Microsystems.

• Java 2 Standard Edition (J2SE)
  • JavaBeans
  • Remote Method Invocation (RMI)
  • Java Native Interface (JNI)
• Java 2 Enterprise Edition (J2EE)
  • Java Servlets
  • Java Server Pages (JSP)
  • Java Database Connectivity (JDBC)

The Apache Software Foundation provides many important tools we use regularly. The Apache Jakarta Project also provides many Java tools we use on a regular basis.

• HTTP (Web) Server
• Tomcat J2EE container
• Struts
• Commons

Operating Systems and Programming Languages

Linux and UNIX

• Linux
• Server Programming
  • C
  • Shell Scripting
  • Interprocess Communications (IPC)

• Windows® operating systems
  • Windows 95/98/Me
  • Windows NT/2000
  • Windows XP Home/Professional
• Visual C/C++
• Microsoft Foundation Classes (MFC)
• Visual Basic

Palm OS 5

Databases

• 
  • Database Server
  • Connnector/J (JDBC connector)
• 9i Database
• Microsoft®
  • SQL Server™
  • Open Database Connectivity (ODBC)
• 
  • Adaptive Server
  • SQL Anywhere

Other

• Brooktrout Vantage telephony board
• rVoice text-to-speech engine
• Computer-Telephony Interfaces (CTI)
• HTTP, TCP/IP sockets and PPP negotiations
• Motion/machine control
• Microprocessor firmware