System Architect XT provide live, secure, and customized views of your encyclopedia repositories. A System Architect XT website comprises various XML, XSL, HTML, SVG, and CSS file types, among others, and is built on the Microsoft .NET Framework. Each file type affects the content, layout, appearance, and behavior of the website.

Because there are numerous resources that describe the technologies used by System Architect XT, this topic provides only an overview of how they relate to System Architect XT.

Files with the .ASPX extension are specific to ASP.NET, which means that the contents displayed to the user are compiled on the server and rendered to each user individually.

This is the Home page you go to after you log into System Architect XT. It contains the default modules installed by System Architect XT. It contains certain components that check the session state (that is, whether you are logged in) and based on that state, determines whether or not to display certain elements, such as the Search field and My Bookmarks box, among others.

Contains modules with questions that pertain to commercial users of System Architect XT. Questions in this file run commercial-oriented reports that query the repository and return data meeting the criteria. You can copy or customize this file for it to run your own reports, in addition to or instead of the default reports.

Contains modules with questions that pertain to defense users of System Architect XT. Questions in this file run DoDAF-oriented reports that query the repository and return data meeting the criteria. You can copy or customize this file for it to run your own reports, in addition to or instead of the default reports.

Contains the options displayed in the explorer tree, for diagrams and definitions.

Determines the physical layout of pages that are generated when you run a query or report. Most .XSL style files contain references to .CSS files, which in turn effect the fonts, colors, table rows, and other elements. Some examples of such .XSL files are Query.xsl, Query_updater.xsl, Search.xsl, and Search_updater.xsl.

Determines various on-screen page elements, including the body background color, heading styles, font family, font color, and so on. This is the main stylesheet file and it is used by default.aspx, login.aspx, and pagegen.aspx, among other .ASPX pages.

Defines the layout and appearance of pages that are generated when you run reports or queries.

Used to display diagrams and bar or pie charts. To view .SVG pages, your browser needs to have the .SVG viewer. System Architect provides an SVG viewer applet based on the Batik open source Java technology. Any computer that has Java installed can view the SVG images.