Services

Our focus is on web applications for the Java platform, but we also have extensive experience with Microsoft technologies. Recent highlights include:

• Image library features for Tromis and Fenestratio.
  
  
• Mobile "skin" for Tromis. By detecting the nature of the client device, many pages of a traditional web application can be made mobile-friendly by supressing the framing and context information surrounding the content specific to the current page.
  
  
• Automated snapshot download for Tromis. A Windows console application that can be scheduled to download the user organization's latest data snapshot as an Access database.
  
  
• Tromis Barcode Delivery - a remote barcode terminal program for loading, shipping and storage to run on Symbol Technologies terminals running PocketPC and Windows CE, interacting with Tromis via web services.
  
  
• A java middleware application for a telecommunications company to register toll free numbers with SMS. Technical highlights of this project were:
  • use of the quaint old ASN.1 BER Encoding protocol over sockets
  • extensive use of Oracle, JMS, and IBM Websphere Application Server
  • reporting of all unexpected exceptions with user, request, and stack trace information via email to a designated technical support person
  
  
• An ASP.NET intranet for a small lighting manufacturer. Technical highlights of this project were:
  • development of Formulaic Manufacturing for quoting, and as a front end to order entry
  • integration between Scotiabank Direct Deposit and DBA Manufacturing to send direct deposit notification emails and faxes to suppliers.
  • integration with DBA Manufacturing to exchange order entry data with a production scheduling intranet subsystem.
  • extensive use of MySQL, the fabulous open source database server
  
  
• A Java extranet for self-serve dealer quoting. Technical highlights of this project were:
  • two-way exchange of SOAP documents with the company's ASP.NET intranet via web services to sychronize product and quoting information.
  • porting of Formulaic Manufacturing to Java
  • production of the reports in PDF format via iText
  
  
• An ASP.NET application for a large machinery manufacturer to produce technical drawing books. The books include the bills of material for all sub-assemblies of the product produced for a sale, along with their blueprints or pictures. Technical highlights of this project were:
  • production of documents in PDF format, with internal links and a live table of contents, via iTextSharp open source tool
  • data gathering from Baan DDC Servers, Oracle, Microsoft SQL Server, and IMAN through .NET Remote components
  • some image manipulation via hp2xx and ghostscript tools
  • background processing of drawing package requests on an uncoupled, persistent, administrable, horizontally scalable, generic job queue
  • reporting of all unexpected exceptions with user, request, and stack trace information via email to a designated technical support person
  • use of web services from request collection application to administer job queue processing application
  
  
• An ASP.NET extranet meant to provide a searchable Sharepoint folder of information for internal sales reps to liaise between customers and suppliers. ie. If a customer expresses a need, the sales rep can search the information in Sharepoint to see if an existing supplier's product satisfies that need. Technical highlights of this project were:
  • production of the reports in PDF format via iTextSharp
  • integration with Sharepoint 2001 via COM library
  • conversion of uploaded images to iTextSharp-compatible format via .NET imaging facilities
  • scanning of uploaded images for viruses via command line scan
  • LDAP/SSL integration