RE-ENGINEERING

Case 1 - Ministry of Forests, British Columbia, Canada.

Case 1:
Government
Customer: Ministry of Forests, British Columbia, Canada
Technology: Reengineering

The Customer

The British Columbia Forest Service is the property manager of British public (Crown) forest land, which includes timber, range, and recreation resources. The forestland covers two-thirds of the British Province. The Forest Service manages the land, which is used for recreation, forage, timber and wilderness, and, in co-operation with other agencies, for water, fish, wildlife, tourism, heritage, energy and minerals.

 
The Challenge

An IBM VM/CSP/PL1 mainframe environment was used at the Ministry of Forests Revenue Branch and the Economics & Trade Branch. The Ministry was looking to move away from this mainframe environment and migrate the applications to the Ministry's NT / Oracle-Java production environment, which would contain the integrated corporate database.

 
The Solution

Tata Infotech designed, converted and implemented the migrated applications onto the Ministry's NT / Oracle-Java production environment. The non-application specific shared propriety VM functions such as security protocols and application-screen management / navigation software were re-designed to function in the migrated environment. Security protocols and screen management / navigation were converted in accordance with Ministry standards. The runtime components of the Web Applications are typically split into two layers. The first layer is the client layer, which consists of a Web Browser. The second layer consists of server components and belongs to the two-tier category. The components of the two-tier category can be located physically on multiple machines. The server components that encapsulate the business logic connect to an Oracle database via JDBC drivers.

 
The Benefits

• Combining tools conversion with manual conversion has the following advantages: a) faster and consistent conversion b) Code which is easy-to-read and maintain.
   
• Increase in the speed of information and improvement on quality of information. Reduced costs.
  

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