Business Summary of the Solution:
Create an application that allows airline pilots to study flight manuals online with advanced searching. This project removes the need to a tedious and expensive paper updating process and ensures that the technical writers for United can update content for the Pilots. In the future the API developed for this project will be reused in a tablet PC to be installed in all United Airline Airplanes.
Technical Summary:
The design of this system allows for the push of content from United’s Documentum installation to Mark Logic (this part of the project was not in the scope of my work). The content is processes to burst it into searching units and run transformation into XHTML as a caching system. Users load the web application and can browse or search all of the flight manuals. The searching allows user to search based on text input and additionally to select their airplane and a number of other filters. The search uses predictive text so that a user can select how the word they mean to type or can see synonyms for the current word. All filters show the user the number of search results that are generated by searching on a term or applying a filters. A user can bookmark and annotate interesting content and the application keeps track of all topics that a user has opened during a session.
This project won an innovation award at the MarkLogic user conference.
Tech Stack:
Content Management Technologies
- Documentum WDK
- DFC
- DQL
- BPM
- DAM
Web Technologies
- Spring Framework
- Google Web Toolkit
- Javascript
- CSS
- HTML
Other Technologies
- MarkLogic XML Database
Deployment Platforms
- Solaris
- Linux – Red Hat Enterprise 4