Geoxtension is based on a 3-tier aplication server architecture and does not load plug-ins or applets. Geoxtension is deployed on ORACLE's Application Server based on data from an OpenGeospatialConsortium® warehouse. Geoxtension has been developed in the leading web architecture J2EE, allowing cost-effective and manageable integration of valuable geodata with other enterprise systems such as ERP, CRM, Billing, Dispatching and others.

The following list gives an overview of functionality that can be provided with Smallworld Geoxtension in the Internet (www) or Intranet

• Display of geodata and attribution direct out of the database
• Comprehensive symbology options including animations
• View and panning operations
• Store and retrieve individual views and theme combinations
• Interactive overview
• Context dependant symbology (attribution, zoom, user)
• Configurable QuickNavigator
• Dynamic legends and scale module
• Configurable attribute edits (codelists, constraints)
• Digitize interactors for geometry placement and edits
• User / role-dependant representation of GUI and data
• Print and PDF plotting
• Graphic tooltips
• SAP adapter
• Google Earth Adapter
• Thematic geoanalysis
• Long term transactions with history and versioning
• Topology and tracing
• Linking and embedding of documents
• Measurement functions
• Redlining