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- Provide a common framework to develop the GRITS Projects and their associated set of common services
- Provide a distributed, cross-platform SOA for GLAST Projects that is simple to develop with and simple to use
- Promote team oriented development (as opposed to individual contributors)
- Maximize disparate talents of a small group
- Programmers
- Web Developers
- Occasionally-connected programmer/manager/astronomer
- Utilize talents of JAS group
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- The Spring Framework, which is the cornerstone of the GRITS Framework, provides those parts of the J2EE specification that we rejected as either too complicated, too expensive, or otherwise not addressing the project's requirements. Specifically, Spring provides:
- Hibernate, a thin wrapper over JDBC which provides the full power of transparent persistence by providing O/R mapping but not trying to hide the underlying relational database.
- Web servers (IIS on Windows and Apache on Linux) for security-conscious service deployment.
- ColdFusion MX for web front-end development.
- Several Jakarta components, primarily Tomcat for service deployment and many of the jakarta commons for
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