eSoftHead - groupware solution

http://www.esofthead.com

eSoftHead Groupware solutions


eSoftHead profile• A Vietnamese IT company set up since 8/2008.• eSoftHead offers the following services:

– Outsourcing and Offshoring.– Technical consultant.– Customized services from eSoftHead products.

• Contact information:– Service request: [email protected]– Address: 15/20/12 Truong Quoc Dung street, Ho Chi

Minh city, Viet Nam.– Telephone: (+84) 091 8734 068

mailto:[email protected]


eSoftHead Competences• Methodology: CMM, RUP, Scrum, XP. • Technology: Web Service, SOA, REST, RIA.• Programming Languages: Java, Flex, .NET.• Frameworks and Libraries: Spring (core and all

extensions), Hibernate, iBatis, Ehcache, Cxf, Grails, Cairgorm.

• Softwares: LDAP, Maven, Ant, CVS, SVN.• Database: MySQL, Oracle, MSSQL Server


eSoftHead Solutions• Rich Internet Application: Flex/Ajax base.• Content Management: JCR 170 – Jackrabbit

implementation.• Groupware service: Calendar, Chat, Note,

Contact, News, Forum, Wiki, Project Management• Enterprise architecture: ESB, JMS, Osgi.• Software best practices: TDD, Unit test, API

Design, OO Principles.


Enterprise Groupware (Engroup)

• Introduction• Features• Roadmap• Technical Requirements• Engroup Architecture• Development Status


Engroup introduction• Engroup is an open

source groupware under GPL license.

• Engroup powers the cooperation among company staff by providing the Chat, Wiki, Forum, etc. modules.


Engroup introduction (cont.)• In addition, Engroup

provides the modules for company operations such as HRM, CRM, Document Management, Project Management

• Engroup has been developed since 4/2008.


Features• Dashboard: News• Connections: Private Message and User List.• Profile: User account, picture and other personal

information.• Administrator: system and security

configuration.• Human Resource Management: company and

employee information.• Customer Relationship Management: basic

customer contacts, lead, campaign information.


Features (cont.)• Document Management• Project Management.• Forum: message board.• Wiki: knowledge management.• Mail: only IMAP is supported.• Chat: any XMPP server is connectable.• To-do: task management.• News: all versions of RSS and Atom are

supported.


Roadmap• Engroup 1.5: Document Management, Project

Management and Timesheet modules are added and integrated with existing modules are CRM, HRM. Simple Reporting System is developed that can display charts.

• Engroup 1.6: Advanced Reporting System, Bug Tracking, Timesheet

• Engroup 2.0: enable System Administrator to configure various options of clustering as well as caching level in enterprise environment.


Roadmap (cont.)• Many modules such as social networking,

finance etc could be added later.


Technical Requirements• Performance and Scalability: services must be

able to serve an unlimited number of users 24/7. Engroup must be designed to be able to run in clustering environment effectively.

• Extensibility: components are designed with loose coupling and high cohesion. Cost of upgrading and extending must be minimal.


Technical Requirements (cont.)• Modularity: Each module code base is

independent of the others. One module can be changed without impacting any other one.

• Security: User access is restricted based on method level of service class.

• Testability: The system is designed to make it easy for writing unit test, integration test.


High Level Architecture• Communication

method between Client and Server are AMF, HTTP protocols.

• Engroup server modules could be integrated with other clients via REST.


Engroup Client Platform• Platform is developed

based on eSoftHead framework including an extension of Adobe Cairngorm framework.

• Module architecture follows MVC pattern.


Engroup Client Platform (cont.)• Platform manages

Module life cycle. • Platform routes

messages sent from one module to appropriate client channel that then dispatches events to listening modules. It helps the module loose coupling with each others.

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Engroup Client Platform (cont.)• Platform and common

API are independent of AIR library.

• Factory pattern is used to separate logic code between platform and specific AIR API → Engroup client can run on both desktop and web environment.


Engroup Server Platform• Platform is developed based on Spring

framework and Osgi platform (Equinox) as well.• Platform packages many third-party Java

libraries as Osgi bundles: – Apache libraries.– Chat.– Logging.– XML processing etc.


Engroup Server Platform (cont.)• Forum, Wiki, Mail products are incorporated into

Engroup server by:– Changing the legacy code base (Limit usage).– Data integration (for example: LDAP).– API - using Enterprise Integration Framework Spring

Integration to implement publish-subscribe pattern to dispatch messages to appropriate channels.


Engroup Server Platform (cont.)• Each Engroup

module follows OO principles:– Each layer has single

and clear responsibility.

– Extensibility.– No cycle dependency.– Separating interface

and implementation into different packages.


Development Status• There are more than

20 Flex projects and nearly 30 Java projects in Engroup workspace.

• eSoftHead automates Engroup build process using Hudson – a Java CI server.


Development Status (cont.)• Main features are

tested by using unit test or integration test approach.

• eSoftHead developed its test framework library for Osgi platform, LDAP, Mail, Database.


Resources• eSoftHead website: http://esofthead.com• Engroup site http://esofthead.com/node/25• eSoftHead blog: http://blog.esofthead.com• Engroup download page:

http://sourceforge.net/project/engroup

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