Our focus is on web applications for the Java platform, but we also have extensive experience with Microsoft technologies. Contact our sales team if you would like to discuss possibilities. Our founder, Joe Clarke, has been in IT consulting since 1988. Highlights of recent assignments are:

• Development of Tromis, see our products page for more information.
  
  
• A java middleware application for a telecommunications company to register toll free numbers with SMS. Technical highlights of this project were:
  • use of the quaint old ASN.1 BER Encoding protocol over sockets
  • extensive use of Oracle, JMS, and IBM Websphere Application Server
  • reporting of all unexpected exceptions with user, request, and stack trace information via email to a designated technical support person
  
  
• An ASP.NET intranet for a small lighting manufacturer. Technical highlights of this project were:
  • development of Formulaic Manufacturing for quoting, and as a front end to order entry
  • integration between Scotiabank Direct Deposit and DBA Manufacturing to send direct deposit notification emails and faxes to suppliers.
  • integration with DBA Manufacturing to exchange order entry data with a production scheduling intranet subsystem.
  • extensive use of MySQL, the fabulous open source database server
  
  
• A Java extranet for self-serve dealer quoting. Technical highlights of this project were:
  • two-way exchange of SOAP documents with the company's ASP.NET intranet via web services to sychronize product and quoting information.
  • porting of Formulaic Manufacturing to Java
  • production of the reports in PDF format via iText
  
  
• An ASP.NET application for a large machinery manufacturer to produce technical drawing books. The books include the bills of material for all sub-assemblies of the product produced for a sale, along with their blueprints or pictures. Technical highlights of this project were:
  • production of documents in PDF format, with internal links and a live table of contents, via iTextSharp open source tool
  • data gathering from Baan DDC Servers, Oracle, Microsoft SQL Server, and IMAN through .NET Remote components
  • some image manipulation via hp2xx and ghostscript tools
  • background processing of drawing package requests on an uncoupled, persistent, administrable, horizontally scalable, generic job queue
  • reporting of all unexpected exceptions with user, request, and stack trace information via email to a designated technical support person
  • use of web services from request collection application to administer job queue processing application
  
  
• An ASP.NET extranet meant to provide a searchable Sharepoint folder of information for internal sales reps to liaise between customers and suppliers. ie. If a customer expresses a need, the sales rep can search the information in Sharepoint to see if an existing supplier's product satisfies that need. Technical highlights of this project were:
  • production of the reports in PDF format via iTextSharp
  • integration with Sharepoint 2001 via COM library
  • conversion of uploaded images to iTextSharp-compatible format via .NET imaging facilities
  • scanning of uploaded images for viruses via command line scan
  • LDAP/SSL integration