Project
- PromoterWorld
Client
Requirement
The PromoterWorld portal - based on the ASP Model (Application service provider) represents a communication bridge between Promoters, Models, enterprises and personnel agencies. In this portal, promoters have the possibility to register themselves and provide their personal profile, making it available for companies that are searching for promoters. Companies which are looking for promoters for their event are able (when they find the matching promoter) to send a request directly to the desired promoter. This can be done by E-Mail or by Short Messaging Service (SMS).
Solution
One of the fundamental problems was to unify different requirements of different user demands. Using the ASP system a certain compromise between the different portal participants was made. This compromise was achieved by a broad parameterizing of the application. The user adapted interface was reached by the separation of the application logic from the design. Using templates made the automatic creation of customized user sites possible including using XML. The coding language XML was used to define static data which then is transferred to the requested site.
A significant difficulty which we encountered, was to ensure the appropriate efficiency of the application, which was highly challenging due to very high number of different user demands and complicated search criteria. This conflict was solved by moving the application logic. By implementing analogous functions and stored procedures located within the Transact-SQL into the data base as well as through dynamic creating of SQL requests.
Technology
The PromoterWorld portal was developed using ASP 3.0 (applying IIS 5.0 as Webserver) and supported by COM+ Technology which was implemented with Visual Basic 6.0 and Visual C++ 6.0. Database works on a SQL Server 2000.
