Technologies

Stanfy is aiming to make technologies work best for the project's needs. The rule is to consider the whole set of available solutions and choose the best one. We follow the J2EE direction for server environment. This doesn't limit us but makes us experts in using a powerful family of open source technologies with numerous APIs and ready to use frameworks.

Web/Application servers: Tomcat and JBoss
Frameworks and APIs: Spring, Struts (Struts 2), Hibernate, Lucene, Velocity, ehCache, poi, axis, batik, fop etc.

We use both Flex and Java Script approaches for GUI. The main decision making arguments here are balancing between interactivity of first and flexibility of second.

GUI: Java Script, Flex

We work with different DB servers. It often depends on the existing customer's IT infrastructure and may vary a lot, but most of our projects use either MySql or Oracle database servers.

Databases: Oracle, Mysql

We keep our projects integrated with modern internet services, social networks, instant messengers, payment systems, hosting environments and other public APIs and platforms.

External APIs and integration with: Instant messaging (ICQ, GTalk, MSN, Yahoo, AIM, Twitter), Web mailers (Yahoo, GMail, AOL, Hotmail), Social networks (Facebook, MySpace, hi5), Payment systems (PayPal, 2checkout, Moneris), Amazon Web Services (Amazon S3, Amazon EC2)

Typical Server Architecture

Our projects are commonly based on the Spring+Hibernate+Struts core. This combination provides us with all needed underlying mechanisms, templates and tools for the Web 2.0 system infrastructure.

Spring is used for the automated configuration and wiring application objects. Based on the Inversion of Control and the Dependency Injection patterns it creates a flexible infrastructure for the objects management and gives ability to move a significant part of the objects' life cycle routines out of the sources to configuration files.
Spring wrappers for the JPA are used as an annotation driven Object Relation Mapping technology. Hibernate is used as a JPA provider. It helps to hide the persistent data objects implementation essentially improving time needed to implement DAO (data access objects) layer.
Struts combines a set of presentation layer patterns like Model-View-Controller, Composite View etc. with the number of tools for creating View components. It gives us powerful techniques for the presentation layer code reuse and separation of the web and business logic components development.

Technological Process

We pay great attention to the technological process as a core component of our development power. A set of tools and techniques, rules and principles which we apply, forms our unique development approach and software design culture. The process is adopted to support the entire life cycle and gives the ability to handle continuous development, maintenance, release and deployment. It also plays an important role for project communication, bug tracking and features adding processes.

Planning methodology - Agile
Version control system - SVN
Issue tracking - Eventum, Bugzilla
Build process - ANT, Maven
Continues Integration - Cruise Control
Documentation - Wiki
Testing - Unit tests, Selenium

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