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OHIO DEPARMENT OF TRANSPORTATION
 Tool — JBuilder Client/ServerIndustry — TransportationApplication — Payroll and Leave SystemDatabase Server — SybaseOVERVIEW The Ohio Department of Transportation (ODOT) is headquartered In Columbus, Ohio. Employing more than 6,000 people statewide, the ODOT maintains 88 county offices, with 12 district offices dispersed around the state. Charged with building and maintaining over 20,000 miles of highway, 57 public transport systems, almost 200 public airports, and 700 miles of navigable waterways throughout Ohio, the department administers an annual budget of more than US$1 billion. SITUATION ODOT has determined that the legacy database and programming language used statewide was not the best direction for the future. Since both the language and the database were proprietary, ODOT was forced to choose a new corporate standard. The IT department spent more than a year considering alternatives. Choosing Sybase as a database server, developers evaluated Visual Age, Oracle, and PowerBuilder, and finally selected JBuilder to build front-end and middle-tier application layers. (IT managers wanted to build an open, platform-neutral system that would eliminate the risks involved in adopting another proprietary system.) SOLUTION Once ODOT's corporate direction was decided, the first applications waiting in line for development were a new Payroll And Leave System (PALS) and a new Project Accounting System (PAS). Using JBuilder, developers had to first develop BALS, a Basic Application Level Security component that would be used in both PALS and PAS and later on reused in many future ODOT applications. After inaugurating this paradigm shift to object-oriented architecture, developers moved on to a prototype for the Leave system. Working part time, they completed the first prototype in less than three months after first adopting JBuilder. Early reaction from test users has been overwhelmingly positive. When fully implemented, PALS will allow the 6000+ ODOT employees to enter their payroll time sheets and requests for leave from any of the 3000 workstations in the department's WAN, and to promptly receive approvals on line. The paperless system is expected to save 9000 hours of clerical data entry every month. PAS will be a critical tool for accelerating the flow of federal highway funds to reimburse the state for the dozens of federal-participation projects underway and will provide the project managers an overall financial view of all Federal projects and monies at any given time. The new system will shave a full two weeks off the time it now takes to receive project invoices and send reimbursements.
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CUSTOMER COMMENTS "JBuilder Client/Server Suite is leading us into the future of enterprise development. We were primarily a mainframe-based shop and needed to move to an object-oriented, client/server environment. We chose JBuilder as our primary development tool for this transition because it satisfied all of our requirements and was the best solution for three-tiered development. We believe that JBuilder offers us the best chance of successfully deploying an object-oriented, client/server application." —John Lavkulich, Administrator of Application Services,
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