The GNOME Conference 2006 Booklet - GNOME Project Listing

The GNOME Conference
GUADEC-ES / GUADEC-CA
Fisterra:
sharing efforts for developing
business management software with GNOME
The Fisterra project defines a common architecture for
developing business management applications using Gnome
technologies. The project tries to create a software repository,
focused on business management software, which includes
architecture patterns, software componentes and even
business widgets that can be reused by the community in order
to create new vertical applications.
GNOME provides a lot of small and independent tools to manage the daily business
operations. We are putting our effort in the integration of all these tools trying to provide a
business management software framework to Gnome.
The Fisterra project has a three-tier client/server architecture, and supports a lot of
development technologies, web (Mono) and desktop (GTK), multiplatform features (Gtk#),
... The communication layer supports both, SOAP and CORBA protocols. The database
access is designed to support connection providers of the most relevant database
technologies (GDA).
This architecture was designed for being modular, trying to ensure an easy integration with
specific business modules, or new technological approaches, increasing the level of reuse of
all the implemented code. Authentication, session manager, user authorisation and other
services or modules can be easily added to this architecture.
We believe the future of Fisterra could have a place in GNOME plans in order to provide a
complete and efficient tools suit for supporting the daily operations on the enterprise
desktop environment.
In the presentation we will talk about the project history, its main motivations and goals,
and will try to explain how developers or companies can get involved and help us to make it
a better solution for developing this kind of software with Gnome.
Javier Fernández García-Boente
Sat 24 16:30
2. Sala d'Actes
Born in La Coruña on 1977, Javier graduated from the University of A
Coruña in 2000 with a degree in computer science. Since then, he has
been working for Igalia SL on the Fisterra project. He worked first as a
developer, but is now the main coordinator of the project. After the first
two years, he became associate of Igalia assembly, specializing in
project management.
Javier's hobbies are wild parties and all kind of sports, especially roller
hockey in which he is semi-professional. His new addiction is extreme
sports.
June 24–30, 2006 • Vilanova (Catalonia – Spain) 71