<s>
Joint	B-Application
Personnel	I-Application
Administration	I-Application
(	O
JPA	O
)	O
is	O
the	O
intranet-based	O
personnel	O
administration	O
system	O
used	O
by	O
the	O
British	O
Armed	O
Forces	O
from	O
April	O
2006	O
onwards	O
,	O
replacing	O
the	O
separate	O
payment	O
and	O
administration	O
teams	O
from	O
each	O
of	O
the	O
three	O
Services	O
.	O
</s>
<s>
The	O
system	O
was	O
designed	O
around	O
an	O
Oracle	B-Application
Commercial	O
off-the-shelf	O
package	O
,	O
with	O
an	O
Oracle	B-Application
database	O
as	O
the	O
back-end	O
structure	O
.	O
</s>
<s>
The	O
online	O
application	O
communicates	O
directly	O
with	O
the	O
main	O
servers	O
over	O
the	O
Restricted	O
LAN	B-General_Concept
Interconnect	O
(	O
RLI	O
)	O
(	O
usually	O
using	O
the	O
DII	O
network	O
,	O
although	O
JPA	O
is	O
also	O
accessible	O
via	O
TAFMIS	O
and	O
other	O
legacy	O
systems	O
)	O
on	O
a	O
client-server	O
basis	O
.	O
</s>
