This image describes the World-of-Books architecture. English, Japanese, and German customers connect to Oracle HTTP Server through the Internet, using UTF-8 encoding. The server contains three parts: JSP/Java servlets, the XSQL Utility, and JDBC drivers.

The server connects to an Oracle9i database through JDBC using UTF-8 or UTF-16 encoding. The server also connects to the Chinese Book Supplier and the Multilingual Book Supplier through JSPs and Java Servlets.