tmsEKP provides users with a centralized, unified, and consistent environment to access information from disparate and unconnected systems in a unified way. The integration services of tmsEKP helps enterprises increase savings and minimize their cost of ownership by incorporating new applications into the existing portal infrastructure and simplifying both enterprise deployment and interactions for the end user. tmsEKP is built on the tmsFramework, a web application development framework that provides a plug-and-play, component-based approach for building e-business applications, tmsFRAMEWORK applications are written in the form of reusable modules that can be rapidly assembled, allowing organizations to focus on their business functionalities. tmsFRAMEWORK leverages on the Java 2 Enterprise Edition (J2EE) platform with an emphasis on web components such as Servlets and JSP. Due to the attributes of the open standard platform of J2EE, tmsFRAMEWORK- ™ can be fully integrated with other frameworks and technologies such as Struts, EJBs, SOAP and WSDL. The framework can be used as a complete development framework to provide an end-to-end solution, or as independent modules to fulfill different and specific requirements