“…The QFView software, used in this study, was designed to be open, web-based and component-based. It supports integrated application of the visualization and animation tools described in Vucinic et al (1992Vucinic et al ( , 2000Vucinic et al ( , 2001 with focus on the application of database management system for data access and archiving. For example, a possible distribution of the QFView components over the Internet can imply that the Enterprise JavaBeans (EJB, 2001), (ISP, 2000) and Relational Database Management System servers (RDBMS, 2001) are located in one place; while the GUI client applications are located at other geographically separated locations as shown in Fig, 3 ( The meta-database is based on J2EE, (J2EE, 2001), distributed architecture with execution logic stored and executed at the BEA WebLogic EJB container (BEA WebLogic, 2001) and accessed from the graphical user interface (GUI) based Java application via the HTTP protocoL The main advantage of the Internet is the possibility to store and access raw data (images, input files, text documents, etc,) from any URL globally accessed location, The QFView system is composed of three major elements listed below, (1) WebLogic EJB container with all the metadata management rules to manipulate metadata and the Informix relational database used to store the metadata information, The EJB container acts as the security proxy for the data in the relational database, (2) Thin GUI Java client is used for remote data entry, data organization and plug-in visualization, GUI clients must be installed at the end-user location, either by the application installation or the automatic application download (Zero Administration Client from WebLogic), (3) URL accessed data (images, video, data files, etc,) can be placed at any URL site,…”