The GRAPHICS ENGINE is built out of distinct layers - each layer fulfilling specific tasks. Outer layers interpret and take advantage of the functionality of inner layers. The GRAPHICS ENGINE itself interfaces with the operating system at its core layer. This concept makes the XiSys solution an easily portable access platform and it can even use the existing graphics capabilities of the core operating system.

The different layers of the GRAPHICS ENGINE can even be separated and put on different hardware, thus allowing small embedded systems without local graphics capabilities to interface with a remote system that has graphics. Part of the GRAPHICS ENGINE layers run on the small embedded system, other parts run on the remote system. The setup of such a relationship is easy and interactive. The embedded system designers' advantage is that the complete INTERFACE to the GRAPHICS ENGINE is available locally, even on the smalles embedded systems.

Once the embedded applications "grows" and moves onto a more powerful machine with local graphics functionality, the embedded system designer does not have to change one single line of code. Only the XiSys setup changes. It's really that easy! It's the XiSys approach.

In fact, the functionality of the INTERFACE management features exceeds pure graphical functions by far. It also offers file and event management as well as inter-process communication. Therefore, the GRAPHICS ENGINE is more of a complete VIRTUAL MACHINE than only a graphical software solution. For simplicity, we call it the GRAPHICS ENGINE.

The XiBase9 server is completely based on the Unicode Standard 3.0, while all application interface routines are supporting wide character, multi-byte and single characters. This concept guarantees the support of the wide range of languages. An integrated language manager is responsible for the text content of all objects. It offers the powerful feature of exchanging all texts on the fly, without involving the applications.