The customer, online media service provider, turned to EffectiveSoft with the request to assist him in the administration, maintenance and technical support of the existing system. Increase in user online connections and downloads, constant addition of new media stuff made it difficult for the customer to manage all the administrative procedures. Apart from that, Online Media Service was developed based on outdated WONDER framework version, which entailed the risk of unexpected technical glitches in the future.
Online Media Service is a web-based store offering a huge and diverse collection of media stuff from different times and from all over the world. One can purchase an individual song of a preferable genre or the whole album of an artist, for example, browse top music charts and buy an ear-catchy song directly on the chart page. What is more, music fans are offered a bonus program to download more music based on activity and funds. Basic characteristics of the service offered:
Business model
Time & Material
Development model
Agile
Project workload
About 8 500 + man-hours
Project infrastructure
2 data centers, 7 Mac OS X servers per data center
Team
1 system administrator, 2 Java developers, 1 QA specialist
Lines of code
Approx. 83 000
Languages
Java
Technologies & Tools
Apple WebObjects, WONDER Framework, MySQL Database,
Apache WebServer, Tomcat, Maven Build, Selenium
(WebObjects application)