EA Technical Standards

Bureau of Temporary Relocation

EA Technology Standards

Standards Area	Standards Baseline	Standards Target	Comments
Presentation	Motif 2.1 X Windows X11R6.8.2 CDE HTML 4.0 Windows NT 4.0	Java Swing XHTML 1.1/2.0 Windows XP Professional	In support of of BTR's strategic Goal #2: Enhanced information and communication systems, our organization will migrate existing information systems from a client-server architecture to a service-oriented architecture. As part of this migration, the standard look and feel of some user interfaces will change. The presentation layer of older applications will change from a Motif look and feel to that provided via Java Swing classes and web browsers. Existing web pages will be recoded from HTML into XHTML. As part of this migration, the desktop environment for some older PCs/workstations will change from CDE and Windows NT to Windows XP.
Application Deployment	C++ Visual Basic	Java 1.5/Java EE 5 JavaScript (ECMA 262) JavaServer Pages (JSP)	In support of of BTR's strategic Goal #2: Enhanced information and communication systems, the organization will migrate internally developed C++ applications to Java 1.5 using the Java EE 5 framework. Web-based applications will employ JavaScript, JSP, and applets to provide application functionality.
Desktop Operating System	Solaris 8 Windows NT 4.0	Windows XP Professional	To provide relocatees with the greatest familiarity and ease of use in communicating with their friends/family via the Internet, BTR will be migrating all of its desktop operating systems from Solaris 8 and Windows NT to Windows XP.
Web Services		SOAP 1.2 XML 1.1 WSDL 2.0 UDDI 3.0	In support of of BTR's strategic Goal #2: Enhanced information and communication systems, our organization will migrate existing information systems from a client-server architecture to a service-oriented architecture. BTR will implement its SOA using open standards for web services.
Networking	IEEE 802.3 (LAN) IEEE 802.11 (WLAN) IEEE 802.15 (WPAN)	IEEE 802.16 (WiMAX) IEEE 802.3ae 2002 (10 GE) SONET
Voice	ITU G.711, G.726, G.727
Data	ITU T V.92 ITU T.120		BTR is presently upgrading all modem/faxes to use the latest data transmission standard.
Video	ISO/IEC 13818/ITU H.261 (MPEG-2)	ISO/IEC 14496-2/ITU H.264 (MPEG 4) ISO/IEC 15938 (MPEG-7)
Security	ISO/IEC 17799 ITU H.235		BTR intends to follow the practices identified in ISO/IEC 17799 to address it information security management needs.