Regardless of how the a BenSelect enrollment is implemented, developers need familiarity with these minimal technologies:

• An appropriate web-capable development language such as C#, C++, Visual BASIC.NET or Java with experience in data validation and error handling techniques
• Visual Studio or a similar software development environment
• HTML and related technologies including IFrame, Cascading Style Sheets, HTML entities and so forth
• HTTP and related technologies such as HTTPS
• XML and related technologies such as XML schemas (XSD)
• Uniform Resource Identifier (URI)
• Familiarity with IIS (localhost) may also be helpful, especially if developers refer to the included Selerix SDK as a reference.
• How to apply encryption
• Basic understanding of and difference between public and private keys and how they are used
• X509 Certificates and encryption