Grassroots Technologies

Technical Ideology

Grassroots Technologies' software and infrastructure development philosophy is centered around two concepts:

1. Best of Breed Technologies: As researched by our group, specific technologies deemed to be the best of their genre. This is not limited to commercial software, nor does it exclude the combination of two technologies to form a new, workable model.
2. Light Implementation Strategy: The simplest, most direct and scalable approach that will get the job done reliably.

This allows us to:

1. Launch development efforts quickly and economically.
2. Meet the client's business objectives.
3. Perform effective client knowledge transfer.

Core Technologies

Within our skill set is vast experience in the technologies listed below. This list is updated regularly.

Java

• Server Side Java and J2EE Standardization
• Tomcat
• JBoss
• Jetty
• Spring
• BEA WebLogic
• Caucho Resin

Other Areas

• Ruby on Rails
• Flex
• Installation technologies: InstallAnywhere, MSI/Wix, Packagemacker, etc.

XML

• Xerces, Xalan, Saxon
• Cocoon
• XML-based content repositories
• XSLT transformation
• XML-based Java class generation using Java Data binding mechanism

Content Management Solutions

• Interwoven TeamSite
• Perl Expansion and Supplementation

Selected Open Source Software

• Apache HTTP Server Project
• Ant
• Maven
• Spring
• Hibernate

Databases

• Oracle
• MySQL
• PostgreSQL

Search Software

• Verity Enterprise
• Lucene

Ad Serving

• Real Media Open Ad Stream