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The Government Site Builder (GSB) is a content management system built for German government sites, based on CoreMedia and written in Java.

PHP is a popular scripting language for creating web pages.

Java is a general-purpose language originally developed by Sun Microsystems.

JavaScript is a lightweight, object-oriented, cross-platform scripting language, mainly used within web pages.

Transitional version of XHTML.

UTF-8 (8-bit Unicode Transformation Format) is a variable-length character encoding for Unicode, which is backwards compatible with ASCII.

JPEG (Joint Photographic Experts Group) is a lossy compression method suitable to store photographic images.

PNG (Portable Network Graphics) is a lossless compression image format, suitable to store graphics with uniformly colored areas, and originally introduced as a free, open-source successor of GIF.

GIF (Graphics Interchange Format) is a lossless compression image format, originally introduced by CompuServe and suitable to store graphics, logos and simple animations.

External Cascading Style Sheets define style rules in a separate CSS file.

Inline Cascading Style Sheets define style rules directly within an (X)HTML element using the style attribute.

Session cookies are temporary cookies, which are deleted when the user closes the browser.

HttpOnly cookies are used only in the HTTP protocol and not in client side scripts, which may increase security.

Non-secure cookies may be used via an unencrypted connections, which may be a security threat.

GlobalSign is an IT security service provider, also operating as SSL certificate authority.

Apache Tomcat is an open source Java servlet container that functions as a web server, developed by the Apache Software Foundation

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