It regulates security, data access, activity logs, error handling and interface design. It has been built with extensibility in mind so that new features can be easily added. Open Source Application Server Security is based on group-rights and is implemented for both tools and data. It can be set to allow certain tools and information to be available without user login, then provide varying levels of accessibility within a secure area. Each group is granted access to specific tools and data within the environment.
Users then inherit rights from the groups that they are members of.
The core of the environment's knowledge functionality is the Language Index . The Knowledge Index stores the inter-relations between these knowledge elements. Every knowledge element can be linked to one or more terms in the Language Index. These links are represented by a specific Type and Strength. In this way all knowledge elements related to a term can be quickly accessible, creating a valuable domain of information within the environment.