With the growing number, scope and range of projects undertaken by ECC the company has created a depth of skill in many modern and leading-edge technologies, methodologies and standards.

The core skills of the technical and development teams include:

A few brief explanations:

XML

XML is a mark-up language for documents containing structured information.

Structured information contains both content (words, pictures, etc.) and some indication of what role that content plays (for example, content in a section heading has a different meaning from content in a footnote, which means something different from content in a figure caption or content in a database table, etc.). Almost all documents have some structure.

A mark-up language is a mechanism to identify structures in a document. The XML specification defines a standard way to add mark-up to documents.

For our purposes, the word 'document' refers not only to traditional documents, like this one, but also to the myriad of other XML 'data formats'. These include vector graphics, e-commerce transactions, mathematical equations, object meta-data, server APIs and many other kinds of structured information.

Java

The JavaTM programming language is robust and versatile, enabling developers to:

SOAP

From the draft W3C specification: SOAP is a lightweight protocol for exchange of information in a decentralised, distributed environment. It is an XML-based protocol that consists of three parts: an envelope that defines a framework for describing what is in a message and how to process it, a set of encoding rules for expressing instances of application-defined datatypes, and a convention for representing remote procedure calls and responses.