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January-2006 to April-2006 Through: BASE Logic, Inc. Client: LookSmart, San Francisco, California USA Position: J2EE DeveloperAbout Client:
LookSmart, Ltd. provides relevant content, advertising and technology solutions for consumers, advertisers and publishers. LookSmart’s 180+ vertical search sites are where consumers look for what they need, offering essential search results and web tools to find, save and share articles. In addition to proprietary vertical properties, LookSmart’s advertiser distribution network includes syndicated publishers and search engine partners that maximize advertiser ROI. LookSmart also offers a customizable set of syndicated solutions for publishers to grow their advertiser relationships and audience. (http://www.looksmart.com). Furl (http://www.furl.net) was the application Mick was assigned to. Furl.net currently has over 600,000 members and over 4 million documents.
Project Summary:
The goal of this project was to convert an existing application built with Ant, into using a Maven 2 build system. The new build system was designed to a continuous integration process. The new build system saved 40% on unit test development time by automating the unit test class during each build. Additional developer time was saved by having a standard build-test-deploy cycle that was automated. Management saved over 10% of their time, and development meeting by having more report data from each build that was used for project estimating and reporting. There was a 30% drop in defects reported the 1st QA deployment cycle on the new system, mostly attributed to testing, and other code reports to help enhance and better the delivered code/product.
Scope of Duties:
Mr. Knutson was solely responsible for the entire conversion from Ant to Maven for an existing internal application to Maven. This included creating custom unit test generation modules, as well as integrating web services, XDoclet, Hibernate and Spring into the build process.
Technologies:
Java 2 (JDK 1.4.2), J2EE 1.3/1.4, EJB 2.1, JBoss 4.0.2, UML, JTA, XML, Xerces, JaxRPC, XDoclet, Spring, Maven, Servlets, Struts 1.2, JSF, AIX, DB2/UDB, Apache, JUnit.
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