Richmond, VA – March 8th, 2011 – Timmons Group, a leader in geospatial consulting and applications development, announced today that Sekhar Kafle, a Senior Software Engineer in the Company’s Applications Development Practice, will be making a user presentation titled “Rapid Development of GIS Services” on March 10 at the 2011 Esri Developer Summit in Palm Springs, California.

Kafle’s presentation will focus on how Timmons Group leverages generic SOE creation and dynamic injection of business logic and functionality at runtime. Geospatial developers understand that GIS service development with a server object extension (SOE) can be challenging. First, it is hard to test SOE code since it runs in the process managed by a Windows service. Kafle’s session will cover a technique to simplify unit testing and debugging of SOE code by running a mock server object in a local process. A second issue with a typical SOE is the tight coupling of ArcGIS Server implementation code with the business code. This not only adds code redundancy and maintenance (install, upgrade, etc.) overhead but also makes it less adaptive to future changes. Kafle’s session will cover the design of a generic SOE that implements necessary ArcGIS Server interfaces but contains no specific functionalities. Instead, the functionalities are dynamically injected into the SOE at run time. Developers will learn techniques to rapidly develop custom GIS services by simply reusing the generic SOE and focusing instead on their business requirements.

Timmons Group is a recognized leader in developing highly intuitive enterprise solutions that integrate complex business requirements with geospatial functionality. The application development team at Timmons Group has a long resume of solving business challenges and simplifying workflows resulting in geospatially-enabled web, mobile, and desktop solutions for our clients.

For more information on the 2011 Esri Developer Summit, go to http://www.esri.com/events/devsummit/.

About Timmons Group
Timmons Group is a leading provider of geospatial, information architecture and engineering services focusing on ArcGIS Server, ArcGIS Mobile and Enterprise solutions. Timmons Group develops solutions across multiple platforms, including Adobe Flex/Flash, Microsoft Silverlight, and JavaScript. Timmons Group is a privately held ENR 500 company and maintains a strong business partner relationship with Esri. Timmons Group has been a recipient of both the Esri Business Partner of the Year award and the Esri Foundation Partner of the Year award. For more information about Timmons Group’s geospatial products and services, contact Lowell Ballard at lowell.ballard@timmons.com or visit www.timmonsgis.com.

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