The following picture depicts DBPrism CMS Architecture:

Basically DBPrism CMS is divided into:

• Database Components
• Web Server Components.

Database componets includes components provided by Oracle Database, such as XMLDB repository, Security layers, Protocol handler and others. DBPrism CMS code is divided into:

• Core, provides the content assets to the Cocoon framework.
• Extensions, some useful extensions such as Search and RSS readers/loaders.
• Front End, the code for the CMS Front END.

Web Server components are static resources such as images (gif/jpg/png) Cocoon configuration files, style sheets, internationalization messages and others.