Business logic such as the HL7 parser bean was implemented as Enterprise JavaBeans (EJBs). NEDSS specifies EJB as the standard for application logic. RODS uses Jboss, an opensource J2EE application server, to run all EJBs. 10 The Web tier comprises the graphical user-interface to RODS and uses Java Server Pages (JSP), Java Servlets, and ArcIMS. The database tier was implemented in Oracle 8i.