1. Mobility for Real Estate – Extending JDE Core Data to User Fingertips

2. Agenda Introduction: Weingarten and Smart Bridge Project Overview
Mobile Application Functionalities: Demo
Architecture Overview
Q & A

3. BASE Features Functional Non-Functional
Access to list of Shopping Centers and Tenants
Access to Weingarten Contacts and Tenant Contacts
Access to Vacant Spaces and Renewals
Access to Aging AR information
Search, Filter, Maps
Non-Functional
Server configuration
Authentication with 3rd party SSO software
Regular synchronization
Download data by region
Work offline

4. How productive and intuitive the application was
How productive and intuitive the application was? How did it improve user day-to-day life?
Weingarten Business User

5. Project Methodology Agile Development Stick to KISS Principle
Sprint Planning, Daily Scrum, Iterative Development
Stick to KISS Principle
Fixed scope, fixed budget

6. As-Built Architecture
The WRI BASE is a client application for mobile devices. The application periodically downloads the business data and stores it in a local SQLite database. All queries in the application use this data. The data is downloaded by connecting to the JDE AIS server via http to perform REST calls using the AIS REST API.
JDE AIS Server
BASE
SQLite

7. Project Components
The overall solution is made up of a number of parts, each with their own components.
Mobile Application
(Xamarin)
JDE AIS Server
TokenRequest
DataService
FormService
BatchFormService
Xamarin.Forms UI
Application Logic
Data Services
Comm Services
Custom Views
HTTP
Property View
Tenant View
Tenant Contacts View
Lease View
Vacancy View
SQLite
Platform Services

8. Project Components & Deliverables

9. Visual Studio Projects
The application was built with Xamarin. The code is contained in multiple Projects in a Visual Studio solution.
Project
Description
WR_PropertyContacts
This is a Portable Class Library (PCL) that stores the main body of the application. It contains the Xamarin.Forms XML Pages, the page models and the main application definition. The application relies on the PRISM MVVM framework and uses the Unity IoC container. Classes are registered with Unity in the App.xaml.cs file.
WR_PropertyContacts.DataObjects
This project defines most of the data objects used by the application.
WR_PropertyContacts.iOS
This is the iOS specific project. It contains the base classes to create an iOS application and calls the shared PCL project. It also contains platform specific implementations for certain classes. These are referenced in the iOSInitializer in AppDelegate.cs.
WR_PropertyContacts.ServiceLayer
This project contains the data services for the application. It exposes functions for retrieving data from the SQLite database and also contains the logic to download the data from the JDE AIS server

10. Additional Packages
The application made use of a number of 3rd party package libraries*. In addition to these, proprietary Smartbridge libraries were also used.
Package
Description
Created by
Smartbridge.Helpers
A collection of helpful utility classes used by a number of the projects.
Smartbridge
RemoteRepo.Abstractions
Defines interfaces expected when working with a remote repository.
JDEAIS.Abstractions
An interface for the JDE Server Settings class.
JDEAIS
Contains all of the functionality used to create JDE queries and parse their responses.
*3rd party package libraries will be restored by Visual Studio when the solution is loaded.

11. Demo

12. Demo