Brief

Real Estate Transactions Browser is a Web application with rich GUI (Java-applet) that provides the user (real estate agent, loan manager of the bank, broker) with capabilities to build complicated queries for selling/buying operations over properties of different types (commercial houses, industrial properties, small houses, agricultural properties) and get query results on the map. The user can browse details of each selected transaction, export results to Excel or to PDF (in form of a printable report). Data exported to Excel is handled additionally with statistical macro to add value in form of diagrams and different totals/averages. Real Estate Transactions Browser also supplies the user with marketing information (4 classes of marketing zones, yield/rental prices dynamics).

Mapping capabilities of Real Estate Transactions Browser are based on set of vector background maps stored locally on the application server. Release 6.1 has been integrated with a third-party map data provider. Real Estate Transactions Browser via SOAP-based API can extract raster maps and add them on top of background map. This feature allows to get detailed/specialized map (satellite, roads, woods and so on) for rural areas of the country.

Real Estate Transactions Browser is managed by flexible and powerful security system. Application administrator has control over every application feature not only on available/not available level. The administrator can limit geography of data available for the user (on municipality level). There is also a possibility to limit access time for the user either by number of requests or by calendar.

Architecture

Real Estate Transactions Browser is a 3 tiers application:

1. Rich Java client
2. ASPX (.Net) middleware
3. MapXtreme 2008 .Net map engine with set of background maps, MS-SQL Server 2005 with application database (data access is wrapped up by stored procedures API).

Brief

The primary purpose of this product is to facilitate E-commerce sale and distribution of multimedia products (such as music, video, ringtones etc.), as well as to provide supporting services, like customer support, product management support, financial clearing, etc.
The media distribution platform is a light and fast framework with small overhead designed for customers with high-end transaction load and high availability requirements. It facilitates support for multiple presentation and business logic channels (can run two or more sites/interfaces (HTML, WAP, SOAP, etc.) for different retailers on the same backend (datastore, business logic).
For the system engineers it provides an extensive monitoring, administration and troubleshooting facilities.

Several web and mobile applications were created on this platform and deployed for different customers in Europe, Russia, China and India.

Architecture

The media distribution platform is a multi-tier platform where:

• Data storage: Oracle 10g
• Data access layer: Hibernate
• Business: EJB, JBoss
• Application server: JBoss
• Presentation: Struts
• Web server: Apache

The media distribution platform is integrated with different external components of the following types:

• Clearing house — provides content preparation/protection and license generation features.  It is utilized during purchase, download and license acquisition process.
• Authentication service — is an external service which provides user authentication. It is usually utilized for customers who have pre-existing customer base which has to be integrated in the e-commerce platform.
• Payment gateway — is an external service to process payment and billing requests.