As part of my work at CGI, I participated in the creation of a web application to allow graduate students to apply for master or doctorate.

Version 2 covers the entire process:

• Allow administrators to create forms to be completed by applicants depending on the program.
• Allow applicants to create their profile and submit applications.
• Allow people to support the candidacy of the applicant by uploading a file.
• Enable internal and external reviewers at McGill to search and visualize the applications according to their permissions.
• Allow McGill’s administrators to manage permissions.

Responsibilities:

• Occasionally:
  • Create files for the installation of the database, configuration and deployment of the package.
  • Deploy the application to the test environment.
  • Guide and answer questions from testers.

Specifics:

• Grails Application.
• Create and access web services with CXF and Groovy wslite.
• Create daily maintenance jobs started by a call to a web service.
• Coding integrations points:
  • With web services.
  • With stored procedures in the Oracle database.
  • By creating views in the Oracle database.
  • Create stubs to use in the development and test environments.
  • With CAS via SAML to retrieve the logged-in user attributes.
• Generate PDF with Flying Saucer
• Create frontend pages with ZKUI
  • Manage email templates and PDF documents containing variables.
  • Management rules for automatic approval of an application.
• Create SQL scripts to migrate the structure and data from version 1 to version 2 of the application.
• Create a filter to verify that the back office users have the required permission to perform certain tasks. Each controller and action can select its permission with an annotation.