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State of Minnesota
XTEND System


  • http://XMLPlanning.com/XTEND
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XTEND Summary
  • XML-Based Text Editor New Development
    • 70 users in Legislature
  • Phase I:
    • Legislative Documents
    • Senate Documents
    • Doc Repositories
    • Search capabilities
    • Security Model
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Project Timeline
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Programmer’s Work Area
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Consulting services utilized
  • Multiple firms engaged to provide:
  • Project Management
  • Requirements collection
  • User interface design
  • Oracle Database & Appserver
  • DTD and stylesheet creation
  • Staff augmentation
  • Lead Programmer
  • Development Team Management
  • Programmers
    • Java
    • Arbortext ACL
    • SQL
    • XPATH
    • XSL
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XTEND Project Status
  • Go live with XTEND in July 2005
  • Status:
    • Bill Drafting nearing completion
    • Senate document sub-system in final integration stages
    • New Website being developed
    • New bill status system being developed
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Technology – Inventory
  • Hardware
    • HP Proliant DL380 G3
      • Intel Xeon 2.80 GHz
      • 2GB RAM
      • 2 x 36 HDD
    • HP EVA3000 (SAN)
      • 550 GB now
      • > 1TB total capacity

  • Operating System
    • MS Windows 2003 Server
    • Citrix MetaFrame Presentation Server 3.0


    • Red Hat Linux
      • Advanced Server 3.0
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Technology – Inventory  (cont.)
  • Commercial Apps
    • Arbortext
      • Epic • E3
      • Styler • Architect
      • Print Composer
    • Oracle 10g
      • JDeveloper
      • App Server
      • Database with RAC
    • Open Source
      • CVS, Ant, CruiseControl
    • Sparx
      • Enterprise Architect
    • Elementool
  • Custom Apps in
    • Sun J2EE
    • Arbortext ACL
    • Perl
    • PHP


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XTEND – Logical Architecture
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XTEND – Physical Architecture
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