Improve Foundations : Plateforme d'industrialisation des développements

Mars / Avril 2008

David Duquenne — 2008-04-16T08:30:30Z

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Des nouvelles des membres de la communauté :
- GALERIES LAFAYETTE
- MFP SERVICES
- AGF INFORMATIQUE
Un nouveau coeur pour Improve Foundations v 5.0
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MONOPRIX

David Duquenne — 2008-02-05T13:31:59Z

Décembre 2007
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David Duquenne — 2008-02-05T13:31:17Z

Janvier 2008
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David Duquenne — 2008-02-05T10:29:52Z

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David Duquenne — 2007-04-24T21:35:16Z

Let your projects take advantage of technology

Cédrik — 2007-04-24T21:34:39Z

Since 1991, Improve's main goal has been to simplify the use of advanced technologies.

For more than 15 years, Improve has acquired a real know-how in J2EE technical architecture developing solutions for its clients.

Today, Improve launches Improve Foundations: it is about technical foundations that give your projects immediat outstanding productivity boost.

Contact us

Cédrik — 2007-04-24T21:33:55Z

David Duquenne

Frédéric Esnault

Product Manager
frederic.esnault@improve.fr

or call 00 33 1 41 97 83 26 from abroad, (01 41 97 83 26 from France)

Overview

Cédrik — 2007-04-24T21:32:08Z

Improve Foundations started from a widely reported recording

"Building a business application shouldn't need high-level of technical competencies, but simply integrate business knowledge in an information system.

But for the past few years projects have rather been technological challenges than business applications developments for end-users."

A development platform based on a community technical foundation

Improve Foundations results from 15 years of experience in building and managing projects for our clients, while building up sharp advanced technological skill.

Improve Foundations is an operational Application Development Framework, based on the best (mainly open-source) technical frameworks available on the market.

Improve Foundations is fully modular to fit your project constraints and requirements.

Improve Foundations is an industrialization platform that boosts your productivity, brings a high homogeneity and quality to your projects by separating business code from technical code.

Improve Foundations benefits from our permanent technological prospecting in order to anticipate the integration of innovative solutions in your information system

Improve Foundations is a collaborative platform that brings its members together in order to share projects experiences, externalise the maintenance of technical components and capitalize on common technological platform evolutions.

As a community platform, Improve Foundations shares the source code of the Application Development Framework (under a Community Source model) within an international community of developers and companies.

	STRATEGICAL STAKES OF APPLICATION DEVELOPMENT FRAMEWORK
Durability	Your Application Development Framework has to integrate the next ten years most adapted technologies in relation with your business needs, without necessarily ever capitulating to endless moving technological offer.
Reusability	Your Application Development Framework has to be be reusable for all your projects in step of construction aswell as in step of maintenance.
Homogeneity	Your Application Development Framework has to guarantee the homogeneity of your projects by imposing a framework of development on your developers, as well as with your partners.
Scalability	Your Application Development Framework has to be scalable, while temporizing the technological rhythm imposed by the market (especially by the Open Source community).
Accessibility	Your Application Development Framework has to be be accessible for your “Business developers” while enabling them to concentrate on software production rather than on technical issues.
Economy	Your Application Development Framework has to reduce realization costs by facilitating the integration of junior developers without requiring any specific technical competencies (mainly relevant to the diversity of Open Source frameworks).
Productivity	Your Application Development Framework has to be integrated within a set of industrialization tools and methodologies adapted to any actor taking part into your projects.

Benefits from a modular architecture

At the core of Improve Foundations is a micro-kernel Improve Foundations Core which provides guidance to non-expert developers for:

Quick development

Easy maintenance

regular updates

Of their J2EE applications, by focusing on the business requirements.

The strong point of the architecture-model brought by our Application Development Framework is to allow both architects and technical experts to enhance a project architecture. This goal is achieved without impacting on the business develoment process by separating the technical source code from the business source code.

On that purpose, Improve Foundations Core is based on an uncoupled multi-layers architecture model for J2EE applications development:

the Client layer displays pages and organizes screen browsing,

the Application layer provides the business logic services,

the Enterprise layer provides database access and data processing,

and a Technical layer provides common reusable crossing technical services.

Improve Foundations Core micro-kernel has been made highly modular through the use of widely recognized design patterns and a centralized configuration system.

On one hand, the modularity enables to personalize the technical solutions to be used and on the other hand, it enables development rules to be enforced.

Improve Foundations is bundled with a collection of technical and business extensions ( Improve Foundations Extensions ) to resolve recurring J2EE-problematic. Then, your developers can focus on what matters, that is business code.

Here is a non-exhaustive list of extensions:

Secure access to applications (authentication, authorization)
Transactional data access (SGBDR)
LDAP ccess
Reporting (PDF and RTF)
Contextual menu management
Multi-context management (MDI)
ASP management
Mail sending
File Transfert (FTP)
Application Monitoring
…

Powerfull of productivity tools

Improve Foundations is bundled with a collection of Eclipse plugins ( Improve Foundations Tools ) to boost developers productivity at a high rate.

TOOL	DESCRIPTION
EasyIF	Source code and configuration file generator
EasyForms	page designer RAD tool, with source code generation
EasyStrutsLayout	Web 1.0 page editor (Struts-Layout)
EasyRialto	Web 2.0 / Ajax page editor (Rialto JSF)
EasyMaven	Maven integration

A community spirit

When acquiring Improve Foundations, yyou get access in the same time throughout the source code ( Core + Extensions ). You can also contribute to the community by expanding the common base ( Community Source ) with your own technical or business extensions.

By joining Improve Community , you can :

access a wide range of online services

delegate the maintenance of your technical components

share your project experiences with a wide community of members and developers.

SERVICES	DESCRIPTION
Documentation Center	Access to online technical documentation
Forum Center	Access to discussion forums
Knowledge Center	Access to a knowledge base (technical papers, tutorials, demonstrations, source code examples...)
BugReport Center	Access to a bug tracker
Marketplace Center	Access to a market place related to Improve Foundations projects
Store Center	Access to online store for buying (or selling) technical or business-related extensions, productivity tools and additional options
Roadmap Center	Give your opinion on Improve Foundations future developments
Support Center	Access to personalized technical support
AutoUpdate Center	Automatic update service for the base, extensions, and productivity tools
Community Source Center	Access to the community source code ( *Core* + *Extensions* ) of our Application Development Framework

Technical Specifications

Cédrik — 2007-04-24T21:32:04Z

The heart of Improve Foundations is the highly modular micro-kernel Improve Foundations Core using advanced design patterns and centralized configuration mechanisms.

Improve Foundationsarchitecture offers a broad range of extensions: Improve Foundations Extensions.

Improve Foundations provides a set of Eclipse plugins, Improve Foundations Tools, in order to boost your productivity.

Improve Foundations implies taking part into Improve Community whose members can work together on their respective projects and bring improvements to the common code base: Community Source.

Open Source frameworks included in Improve Foundations 4.0

Common Frameworks
JDK	1.5
Servlet	2.3
Xerces	2.0.2
Spring	2.0
Avalon-framework	4.1.5
Commons-beanutils	-
Commons-lang	2.0
Commons-dbcp	1.2
Commons-io	1.0
Commons-net	1.4.1
Commons-Validator	-
Commons-logging	1.0.4
Log4j	1.2.8
Fscontext	-

User interface
Velocity	1.4
Velocity-tools	1.4
Struts	1.3
Struts-Layout	1.2
Rialto/JSF	1.0

Data Access
JDBC	-
Hibernate	3.1.3
ehcache	1.2.3
Ibatis	-

Printing
Fop	0.20.4
JasperReport	1.2.3
iText	1.3.1
iReport	-
Batik	1.5
rtf-to-xml	-

Tests
JUnit	3.8.1
HttpUnit	-
StrutsTestCase	2.1.2

Tools
Eclipse	3.1
Mail	1.4
PostgreSql	7.4.1
MySql	2.0.7
DBUnit	2.1
MessAdmin	1.x
Maven	2.0
LuntBuild	1.3.2
Subversion	1.3.2
CVS	-
Mantis	1.0.5

Atos Origin

Damien Viel — 2007-04-20T13:53:29Z

Partenaire « ENTERPRISE »

À propos d'Atos Origin

Atos Origin est une société internationale spécialisée dans les services informatiques. Sa mission consiste à traduire en résultats la vision stratégique de ses clients par une meilleure utilisation de solutions de conseil, d'intégration de systèmes et d'infogérance.

Implanté dans 40 pays travers le monde, Atos Origin réalise un chiffre d'affaires annuel de 5,4 milliards d'euros avec un effectif de 50 000 personnes.

Atos Origin est le partenaire informatique mondial des Jeux Olympiques et le Groupe compte parmi ses clients de grands comptes internationaux dans tous les secteurs d'activité. Atos Origin est coté sur le marché Eurolist de Paris et exerce ses activités sous les noms d'Atos Origin, Atos Euronext Market Solutions, Atos Worldline et Atos Consulting.