Enterprise Java Services & J2EE

NorthPoint's Enterprise Java team can work with your organization in designing a custom enterprise application that will meet your business needs, be scalable, and evolve with the changing landscape. Our work ethic is superb. At its core, there is an emphasis on design over work-arounds, algorithms over brute force, metrics over supposition.

Custom Product Development

NorthPoint provides enterprise solutions with a world-class team of Java programmers experienced in custom product development as well as quality application designs based on industry standards, modern frameworks, and performance-oriented products that scale. Implementation is just the beginning. We collaborate with your product development team to avoid common pitfalls, leverage industry best practices, and provide an execution plan that is timely and technically feasible.

Our focus is on the entire product lifecycle and our expert team can:

  • Architect and design enterprise applications
  • Create user interfaces emphasizing graphical tools and user-centric design
  • Develop system architecture including networking, clustering, fail-over analysis, hardware provisioning and management
  • Provide single sign-on (LDAP, OpenAuth, SAML, Active Directory)
  • Create APIs, interfaces, and integrations with third party services (including Social Network API integration)
  • Refactor, tune, and optimize code
  • Create database design and tuning
  • Provide application profiling and benchmark analysis
  • Develop automated deployment, monitoring, and build systems
  • Maintain issue tracking systems, test suites, and continuous build environments

Frameworks

Why reinvent the wheel? Our developers are up-to-date on the latest Java frameworks to ensure that your organization gets the best-in-breed solutions on systems that are supported by rich, open source communities. We can work with legacy frameworks or can start from the ground up by utilizing industry best practices. Some of the application frameworks we have worked with include:

  • Play!
  • Spring MVC
  • Hibernate
  • JSF
  • Solr/Lucene
  • Struts
  • AndroMDA
  • JBPM and Drools
  • JBoss
  • Axis

Content Management Systems

NorthPoint has worked with numerous content management systems from both proprietary and open source providers. We are technology-agnostic and we work closely with you in choosing and implementating the CMS system that best meets your organization's needs. Our CMS Services include:

  • Information Architecture
  • Custom Module Development
  • Migrations / Upgrades
  • Custom Workflow
  • Optimization / Scalability
  • Maintenance
  • Integration with other open source frameworks (e.g. Spring, Hibernate, Struts, Solr)

Interwoven TeamSite and LiveSite

NorthPoint is an experienced provider of services for the Interwoven suite of applications. In addition to being knowledgeable about templating and integrating the platform with custom applications, our developers have experience in site redesigns, integrations with third-party web services, and integrating data from multiple sources.

OpenCms

OpenCms is a professional, easy-to-use open source website content management system (CMS) that is Java and XML-based. This CMS helps content managers worldwide create and maintain websites efficiently; it also provides powerful features especially suited for medium and large enterprise internet and intranet applications.