OraTransplant

Challenging job opening for a Java developer

We currently have a job opening for a Java Developer in Leiden, the Netherlands. Initially, his/her primary role would be the development of the next version of a disconnected Swing application and the associated web service. But we also expect him/her to have a prominent (technical) role in the development and startup of other Java projects.

We have a lot of external users in healthcare institutions around Europe. This user population is much better of with modern web based interfaces than with traditional client/server Oracle Forms. So, since 2004 we’ve been actively working on a migration to Java. Last year we developed four web applications using Oracle JHeadstart and UIX as view technology.

One of the most challenging recent Java developments was a system for offline registration of available Donor organs. Whenever a donor is available, a transplant coordinator is dispatched to the site. This coordinator collects a lot of information about the donor and the donor organs. It’s very hard for a coordinator to get a network connection in a random hospital in the middle of the night. This means we couldn’t build an online (connected) application. That’s why we decided to build this using Java Swing, so the application can work offline.

Whenever the coordinator can get a wireless connection (either GPRS or UMTS) the data is transferred to a web service running on our central server. The coordinator can then continue to update and collect information and can synchronize with the central system at a later time.

We are looking for someone with a broad interest in Java related technologies and who can help/lead us in further enhancing our usage of CruiseControl, JUNit, Ant, XML, XSLT, Java Swing, JSP, Oracle UIX and Oracle Business Components. He/she will also play a leading role in the implementation of Java ServerFaces at Eurotransplant. We are looking for someone with experience with these technologies or who is able/willing to learn these technologies. It would be very nice of he/she has experience with developing Java database applications using Oracle’s ADF Data bindings.

As you can read on my weblog, Eurotransplant is in the middle of some drastic changes in our IT environment. We come from a (somewhat traditional) background of Oracle Forms/Reports development using Oracle Designer. Since 2003 we’re moving to a modern J2EE based architecture. Our transformation to a modern web based architecture hasn’t gone unnoticed. Oracle published two customer success stories (here and here) on Eurotransplant and our efforts to move to a web based environment. I was also invited to become a member of Oracle’s Customer Advisory Board for Development Tools.

The job opening hasn’t been posted to the jobs section of our website yet, but you can get some information about working at Eurotransplant there. If you’re interested in the job, do not hesitate to contact me using the Contact tab.

Update: We found someone! So the job opening is no longer there

Agile databases

Summer 2005 I posted a number of articles on version control of database objects. I had some very interesting discussions in the comments of those entries.

Introducing version control and build automation for our database development suffered from some delay as other projects had higher priorities. We’re about to start again with the introduction of version control and build automation.

For that, I was reading through the past entries again and noticed a trackback from another site. That page lists a very usefull bunch of links to other pages discussing the same subject. If you’re interested in the subject be sure to check this site.