Telosys use case

How to migrate
from client/server
to Java/Web ?
Laurent Guérin
. SOGETI : National Practice Leader "Open Solutions"
. OW2 : Telosys project leader laurent.guerin@sogeti.com
The context

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 The company

• Activities & key figures ( year 2008 ) :

Activities :
- Security 80 %
( workplaces protection )
- Technology
- Logistics
- Mobile security
- Other …

Size : 6400 employees

Turnover : 214 million €

Location : France & Belgium

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 The software ( the "old" application )

• Classical "client/server" application

(Visual Basic) with a relational database
• Used by security officers to
manage a workplace supervision

Events

Team

Equipments

Logging

etc...
• Multilingual (French, English, Dutch)
• Installed on each site

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 The initial situation ( Client / Server )

Relational Database
Installation required
on each site !

Application
+ runtime

Installation
Application & update
+ runtime IT Resources
management !

Runtimes !

Application Application
+ runtime
+ runtime The number of sites
is growing quickly
Application 2007 =
+ runtime
Not accessible
out of the VPN
3x nb of sites
in 2006
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 The target ( new Web application )

Application Database
"Online application" Server Server
accessible via a
browser

Nothing to install
Standard
http environment :
. http
. HTML
. XML
. Java
Open architecture . etc …
(  extranet ? )

Lightweight
client
Potential
new
peripherals
 Potential R.O.I.

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 The problematic

• Technical migration ( + few evolutions )

No real functional value added

Main goal : reduce the cost of the IT resources
management
• => The R.O.I. depends on the project
efficiency : productivity required !
• The user experience must be preserved

=> good user interface

=> list of events must be up to AJAX
date on the screen needed

etc …

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The migration

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 Project based on Open Source software

• Infrastructure & middleware

Linux

Apache

Tomcat
100 %

MySQL
free
• Java framework
100 %

Telosys
framework
simple
LGPL
• IDE Cost 

Eclipse

Telosys tools (plugins)
Efficiency 

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Why Telosys ?

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 Telosys framework

• Telosys is a "global framework"

( "full-stack" / "multi-aspects" framework )

Only one ".jar" file "Keep it simple

( telosys.jar ) and pragmatic"

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Telosys framework : the "only" framework

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 Telosys framework : the screens
Based on
No HTML
<%@ taglib uri="/telosys/widgets" prefix="t" %>
<t:screenbody data="employe" >
JSP + taglib "widgets"
<t:label x="40" y="60" txt="Code : " cl="PK_field_label" />
<t:label x="40" y="100" txt="Name : " /> Very close to
<t:field x="200" y="60" id="code" data="#" size="6" maxlength="6" />
Client/Server
<t:field x="200" y="100" id="name" data="#" size="30" maxlength="30" /> screens
definitions
<t:button x="460" y="100" id="b1" txt=“My button" onclick="…" />

</t:screenbody > Example :

V.B. ".frm"
ScreenManager

XML / http ScreenData DAO

<employe . code
code="" "employe" . name mapping EMPLOYE
name="" /> "societe" . Code
ScreenMap "xxxx"
. Name

Client/Server dialog
based on AJAX Generated Generated
=> Well suited for JavaBean DAO
( POJO )
C/S migration
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 Telosys tools : code generation

Generation Reliable
Reposi- (always
Database tory up to date)
(XML)
plugins

Generation Telosys
Templates Templates Wizards
The
existing
C/S
database

The code generation

improve dramatically
the productivity Full Full Java
CRUD Java Classes
Screens Classes Skeletons

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 Telosys tools : a short demo ...

How to …
1 – generate the
lightweight repository

2 – generate all the

"Data Access Layer"

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 The benefits

• High productivity

Global  simple & efficient workload gain :

Code generation from 20%
to 40%
• Screens behavior

Very close to original C/S screens

Good user experience

Natively based on AJAX

Client/server dialog
• High performances

Scalability
• Natively multilingual

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 Generalization & extensions

All client/server applications based

on a relational database can be
migrated in the same way

• Visual Basic
• Power Builder New tools : Same
• NSDK / NatStar automatic DB
screens
• Delphi transfor-
mation
• WinDev
• Oracle Forms
• etc …

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 Questions
?

Reliable Efficient
framework tools
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 Web links

• OW2 :
http://www.ow2.org

• Telosys :
http://telosys.ow2.org

• Telosys LinkedIN group :

http://www.linkedin.com/groups?gid=1340197

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