Physical Architecture

The Realtime Despatch application can be hosted on a local or remote webserver. E-commerce businesses can use the managed servers that already host their websites, ensuring that the back-end systems benefit from the same security and resilience at no additional cost.

Software Architecture

The Realtime Despatch software is built using an n-tier Java architecture, providing a scalable enterprise application that is platform independent, running on both Linux and Windows operating systems. Data is stored on a MySQL database. The application typically runs on an Apache Tomcat server. Apache HTTP server or Microsoft IIS can also be configured to serve additional static HTML content.

Development

The Realtime Despatch software is built using leading open source application frameworks. This allows for rapid development of new features and consistency in the way that these features are implemented. A rigorous software development and build process is used, with a strong commitment to testing at all stages of the development cycle. Careful version management is used to allow for a rapid turnaround for bug fixes when these are required.