DbForms is based on the following specifications: Java Servlets 2.3 and Java Server Pages 1.2 by Sun Microsystems. For more information on server-side Java technology please see [Servlet].

DbForms makes extensive use of the JSP Tag Library Extension included in the JSP 1.2 specification [Taglib].

XML parsing facilities and other parts of DbForms are based on code taken from Apache Group's Jakarta-Struts project [Struts].