Auction Software, Inc.

Auction Software, Inc. Auction Software, Inc (ASI) is a leading provider of auction management software and solutions to the automobile auction industry.

comIT is developing an extensible framework that is initially responsible for processing XML files and storing the contents in a database. These XML files contain information on dealerships doing business at an auction, dealership representatives registered at the auction and dealership banking information. The application is deployed on an IBM i (iSeries, IBM i) server. ASI developers are writing applications in a familiar environment to process that data and update the main database.

Major technologies used:

  • Unified Modeling Language (UML) for design and documentation
  • Java 1.4
  • dom4j - an open source library for processing XML documents
  • Hibernate - an object/relational persistence and query service for Java
  • Apache Commons - various utilities including email support
  • Apache log4j - another Apache project for managing log files
  • JTOpen - an Open Source version of the IBM Toolbox for Java
  • Apache Ant - an Apache Java-based build tool