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Application Building Tools

As businesses become increasingly dependent on their software, development teams face increasing pressure to produce faster and deliver measurable value to the business. At the same time, development teams are asked to reduce costs, improve quality and provide auditable governance and compliance.

The global nature of development requires dispersed, multisite teams to work on the bit pieces of projects, while staying aligned with overall project objectives. Communication is essential, but so are consistent, reliable and repeatable processes for assigning ownership, managing version control, delivering software and understanding the overall project status.

Application Building Tools help you:

Improve quality and productivity
Effectively unify distributed teams
Automate software assembly processes
Gain better visibility into projects for fast delivery of high-quality software
Provide traceability across the software development lifecycle

Some of these tools are:

Requirements management and definition

Requirements management, requirements definition and requirements engineering practices are the cornerstones of project success. In a recent industry study, organizations surveyed incurred a cost of as much as 60% on time and budget when they used poor requirements practices. Organizations with poor business analysis capabilities had three times as many project failures as successes. When requirements are defined and managed properly, project overruns can be reduced by as much as 20% by reducing the number of inaccurate, incomplete, and omitted requirements.

Modeling

A modeling language is visual and at a higher-level of abstraction than code, using models encourages the generation of a shared vision that may prevent problems of differing interpretation later in development. The Unified Modeling Language - UML - is the most-used specification, and the way the world models not only application structure, behavior, and architecture, but also business process and data structure. UML unifies every step of development and integration from business modeling, through architectural and application modeling, to development, deployment, maintenance, and evolution. Software modeling tools are used to construct these models, which may then be capable of automatic translation to code.

Integrated Development Environment

• Shortens the technology learning curve through visual design, with auto-synchronized code modeling, quick fixes, tutorials and code samples.
• Assists agile collaborative development of applications as it works with project and source management solutions.
• Uses robust capabilities to create SOA applications, including the ability to automatically create necessary SOA components such as WSDL files.
• Applies visual portal development techniques to speed development.

Software Testing

Software Testing can be stated as the process of validating and verifying that a software program/application/product:

meets the business and technical requirements that guided its design and development;
works as expected; and
can be implemented with the same characteristics.

Software Testing provides an objective, independent view of the software to allow the business to appreciate and understand the risks at implementation of the software.

Application Platform Tools

Application Servers

The Java platform comprises a robust and extremely broad set of libraries—literally hundreds of them—providing a vast array of commonly required services and solutions. With Java and J2EE, the promise of reusability and the benefits of standards-based development are clearly realized.

Besides being an object-oriented programming language, Java also provides built-in support for many features that result in programming challenges in other platforms, including multithreading support and automatic garbage collection. J2EE also solves common web application challenges in stateless HTTP request processing, as well as messaging and distributed components (supporting persistence, security, and transactions).

J2EE applications benefit from centrally located configuration, administration, and maintenance, leading to savings in deployment and support costs. Choices about the best architectural implementation (clustered machines, alternative databases, and so on) are abstracted, further increasing your flexibility in selecting among alternatives.

Since the J2EE platform is a well-defined standard, many architectural alternatives are available for deployment of your application. From a broad range of operating systems, databases, and web servers, to choices among application servers, developing for the J2EE platform leaves you free to choose the best alternative for you, while still enabling you to move to another platform supporting J2EE when your needs change.

Connectivity Middleware

Connectivity Middleware software controls or enables the connection, communication, and data transfer between two computing endpoints. Protocols may be implemented by hardware, software, or a combination of the two.

Connectivity Middleware enable programs to communicate with each other across a network of unlike components, such as processors, subsystems, operating systems and communication protocols.

Services offered by connectivity middleware include:

• Client / Server Connectivity - Middleware provides the mechanism by which network applications communicate across the network.

• Platform Transparency -Client and server don't have to have intimate knowledge of each other in order for work to get done.

• Network Transparency and Isolation -Middleware often makes networking choices transparent to application programmers

• Application and Tool Support (APIs) -middleware presents its own API to client applications that might use it.

Issues	Middleware Resolution
Lost/duplicate transactions from network errors.	Integrity for distributed deployments.
Inability to scale	Multi-system load balancing support.
Applications on different schedules. (e.g., daytime entry, nightly processing)	Time independent integration support
Failures due to unavailable applications	Multi-system high availability support
High value / high risk transactions.	Comprehensive security
Inconsistent, complex integration methods	Multi-platform Support

Application Development

Development of business-oriented software solutions turns out to be one of the most dynamically growing segments of software market nowadays. Thus, strong demand for software solutions of the kind calls for a flexible, efficient and cross-platform technological basis for enterprise application development. J2EE platform offers many features to satisfy the demand for such a basis: compatibility with the programming means of the developers' choice, easy-to use connectivity features and reduced time required to introduce the solution to the market.

J2EE technology gives software developers a comprehensive blueprint for providing complete enterprise computing solutions on the Java platform. Faster solution delivery time to market, freedom of choice of programming means, and simplified connectivity – these are the features that make J2EE one of the leading platforms for enterprise application development.

Databases for Data Management

A Data Base Management System (DBMS) allows users and other software to store and retrieve data in a structured way. When a DBMS is used, information systems can be changed much more easily as the organization's information requirements change. New categories of data can be added to the database without disruption to the existing system. Instead of having to write computer programs to extract information, user can ask simple questions in a query language.

A DBMS helps to specify the logical organization for a database and provides facilities for controlling data access, enforcing data integrity, managing concurrency control and restoring the database.

A relational database management system (RDBMS) is a DBMS that is based on the relational model. Most popular commercial and open source databases currently in use are based on the relational model. In an RDBMS may be a DBMS data is stored in the form of tables and the relationship among the data is also stored in the form of tables.

XML (Extensible Markup Language) is a popular and widely-implemented standard: XML can be used to create documents and data records that are fully portable and platform-independent. Various industries utilize XML standards for defining industry-specific formats for standardized information exchange. Databases able to handle XML allows the creation of applications that utilize an end-to-end XML architecture. One major advantage of end-to-end XML applications is that the same XML-based industry format or custom notation can be used for storing, for exchanging, and for viewing and manipulating XML.


	Document Capture ECM Page Facts: Studies show that in most corporate environments, knowledge workers spend up to 40 percent of their time trying to find documents they need in their daily routines. Time spent searching for and re-creating documents that already exist, and shuffling through unstructured information account for billions of dollars of wasted time in the US alone. Gartner Research puts EDMS applications squarely in their magic quadrant of tools with high ROI (Return on Investment) and low costof ownership. Integration and federation of content repositories will be critical in future. ECM is increasingly becoming part of IT infrastructure. Document Transmission Content Management Seeing the potential for digitization and managing content, MicroGenesis has given a special focus to Enterprise Content Management (ECM). Together with its strong partnership with Kofax – the leader in document capture, MicroGenesis offers end to end solutions to customers based on IBM ECM (FileNet, Content Manager), Kofax document capture and its own DStore solution (based on Webshere and DB2). DStore bridges the gap between digitization, basic document management and advanced document management capabilities. Several prestigious implementations of ECM solutions have enabled MicroGenesis to create a market reach that spans across several verticals. MicroGenesis offers the most appropriate blend of products to meet an organization’s requirements both from the technical and investment perspective. MicroGenesis ECM solutions are future proof.


	Technology Tools MicroGenesis develops web-enabled software to the latest in J2EE standards:- JSF (Java Server Faces Technology), SDO (Server Data Objects), Web services. JSF technology JSF technology establishes the standard for building server-side user interfaces. JSF makes it easy to develop web applications by bringing support for rich, powerful user interface components (such as text boxes, list boxes, tabbed panes, and datagrids) to the web development world. JSF is a major leap forward in application development productivity. It is easy to develop complex user interfaces (UIs) and integrate them with data sources. You could drag application widgets—UI controls and other components— from a palette and drop them into your application. Each of these components has properties that affect their behavior. These components generate a set of events, and event handlers define the interaction between the UI and the rest of the application. Service Data Objects is a technology that allows heterogeneous data to be accessed in a uniform way. Accessing data is the lifeblood of any application, but the various manners in which its stored has given way to many techniques for tapping such information, Java has JDBC, JDO and JAXB to name a few, while Microsoft has ADO.NET, ODBC and ActiveX to also name a few, but each one of these methods is designed with a particular purpose in mind. Some of them are designed exclusively for accessing relational databases while others are used for purposes like accessing XML structured data or flat files That's the reason why a mechanism named Service Data Objects (SDO) has been created. It is easier and more efficient to use a unified manner in which to access any type of data store -- relational, XML, in-memory or other -- and modify it independently of the programming language or platform being used.SDO defines its building blocks as data graphs, containers which posses data tree structures, each one having its own data types, metadata, parent-child relationships, cardinality relationships, default values or any other property commonly related to data structures. The important thing to realize about these data graphs is that they can be constructed from any type of data store -- relational, XML or any other proprietary format -- the main benefit being data can be inspected and modified through a uniform approach irrespective of its origin. J2EE applications built with JSF and SDO can easily be modified and enhanced to meet requirements in user interface as well as integration to other systems. Software development includes Web services and report generation using Crystal Reports technology. Development Tools MicroGenesis uses the following tools for development: a) IBM Rational Software Architect(RSA) is an advanced model-driven development tool. It leverages model-driven development with the UML for creating well-architected applications and services. RSA has powerful modeling and graphical editing capabilities across a variety of domains (UML 2, BPMN 2, Java/JEE, WSDL, XSD, SCA, and more). Includes the complete IBM® Rational® Application Developer product for an integrated design and development experience. b) IBM® Rational® Application Developer for WebSphere Helps Java™ developers rapidly design, develop, assemble, test, profile and deploy high quality Java/J2EE, Portal, Web/Web 2.0, Web services and SOA applications. RAD is integrated and optimized for IBM WebSphere Application Server and IBM WebSphere Portal Server products and includes test environments for these products. RAD shortens the technology learning curve through visual design, with auto-synchronized code modeling, quickfixes, tutorials and code samples. Deployment Tools a) WebSphere Application Server(WAS) WAS provides the availability and security your business depends on while optimizing cost. Organizations can build, deploy and manage robust, agile and reusable SOA business applications and services of all types, while reducing application infrastructure costs with WAS. WAS can run the same amount of workloads on fewer servers by consolidating up to 30% of workloads utilizing EJB and Web services performance enhancing features. WAS offers enhanced support for standards, emerging technology and a choice of development frameworks. These include: • Java EE 5 certification, EJB 3.0 support and Java Persistence API (JPA) and Java Development Kit (JDK) 6.0, deliver simplified programming models for building reusable persistent object • Web services support, including JAX-WS, SOAP 1.2, MTOM, XOP, WS-ReliableMessaging, WS-Trust, WS-SecureConversation, WS-Policy, and Kerberos Token Profile, simplifies interoperability in mixed environments • Web 2.0 support (via Feature Pack for Web 2.0) extends Service Oriented Architecture (SOA) by connecting external Web services, internal SOA services, and Java Platform Enterprise Edition (JEE) objects into highly interactive Web application interfaces • Session Initiation Protocol (SIP) servlets simplify development with standardized support for interactive user sessions involving real-time multimedia elements such as voice, video, instant messaging and online games b) IBM WebSphere MQ MQ helps untangle costly and debilitating IT complexity associated with point-to-point connectivity and integration. WebSphere MQ improves the flow of information across an organization and positions it to adjust to dynamic business requirements, reduce maintenance, integration costs, and seamlessly bridge to new technologies. MQ includes the following features: • Reduces costs and process disruptions from data loss with a unifying solution for guaranteed message/transaction delivery. • Reduces ongoing maintenance costs by decoupling connectivity and integration logic. • Achieves fast ROI - as short as six months - leveraging existing assets - using existing skill sets. • MQ provides a single unifying transport that reduces cost and maintenance efforts, including support for HTTP, REST and JMS. • Can prevent costly security breach exposures and help achieve compliance through message & transaction integrity. c) DB2 Database DB2 offers industry leading performance, scale, and reliability on your choice of platform from Linux to z/OS. offers industry leading performance, scale, and reliability on your choice of platform from Linux to z/OS. DB2 reduces greater amounts of space needed to store data, helping clients save up to 75% on related costs including energy -- more than any other available database software. This offering is also the industry's first database software that will deliver business analytics capabilities for both relational and XML data at the same time. With native support for both relational and XML data, DB2 can help simplify development and deployment of advanced new applications while increasing performance. DB2 pureXML eliminates much of the work typically involved in the management of XML data, and serves XML data at unmatched speeds. Applications can mix relational and XML data as business needs dictate. DB2 also adds end-to-end native XML support for both transactional and data warehouse applications, opening new opportunities to extract business value from XML data. With DB2, you can transform your use of XML from a convenient way of representing data to a true business asset.