FASTSNP is written in Java and its web interface application is written in Java Server Pages (JSP). It runs on top of the Linux operating system and Tomcat web server and uses the MySQL database management system as its storage platform. Web wrapper agents are encapsulated as JavaBeans. Figure 2 shows the data flow diagram of the four major component modules in FASTSNP: (i) Query module, (ii) Function analysis module, (iii) Prioritization module and (iv) Function report module.
