openFWPA: Open Framework for the Public Administration (2009)
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This document discusses openFWPA, an open source framework for e-government applications developed by the Principality of Asturias in Spain. It summarizes the framework's benefits, including increased reuse, standardization, and quality. It also outlines Asturias' leadership in e-government according to national reports and the growth of the local ICT sector. The framework was released under open source licenses to expand its user base and further R&D efforts.
openFWPA: Open Framework for the Public Administration (2009)
- 1. openFWPA: Open Framework for the Public Administration, Principality of Asturias (Spain) Miriam Ruiz - Fundación CTIC <miriam.ruiz@fundacionctic.org>
- 2. Introduction
- 3. e-Government Use of information and communication technologies (ICT) in administrative processes in the public sector. Transformation of paper based processes in electronical processes. Ideally: single point of contact that allows the provision of public services taking advance of the interactivity, quickness, efficiency and customisation provided by the new technologies.
- 4. What advantages does it have? ● Social: Better quality of life – Availability: 24x7 Service – Time Spare: Travels and waits are avoided – Access Simplicity: It is not neccessary to get to the office. Services can be accessed from anywhere in the world. – Removal of barriers due to geographical distance and discapacity ● Economical: Better productivity – More efficiency and transparency – Less administrative and management load ● Ecological: Less ecological impact – Reduction in the quantity of paper used – Reduction in travels
- 5. Free Software in e-Government ● Freedom of choice: It does not depend or is determined by a single software provider ● Security and privacy guarantees on systems and data: Allows for a complete inspection of the computerized system ● Perdurability of the information: It guarantees access to the documents now and in the future, on any computer architecture ● Development of local industry: Investment in technological development helps to improve local businesses and employment ● Code share and reuse: It is not neccesary to keep developing the same once and again by different organizations ● Cooperative development: Improvement of the quality and reduction of development and maintenance costs ● Encouragement of Standards: Compliance with the Electronic Administration Legislation ● No discrimination: Free Software gives a better support to the citizens' technological diversity ● Consistency with other administracions: Every time more organizations use, install or develop Free Software
- 6. Asturias ● Single-province Autonomous Community in the north of Spain (Europe) ● Total Surface: 10.603,57 km2 (2,1% of Spain) ● Population: 1.070.215 (2,38% of Spain) ● High geographical dispersion rate (100 inhabitants per square km) ● Mountainous and coastal region ● One third of the territory is a protected natural area
- 7. openFWPA ● Direct descendant of the J2EE development framework of the Principality of Asturias (FWPA) ● Initiative promoted by the Directorate-General for Computer Science and the Directorate-General for Modernization of the Government of the Principality of Asturias (Spain) ● Development Framework for electronic administration and e- government systems based on the J2EE technology ● It consists of more than 100.000 lines of code developed by the Principality of Asturias ● With a Stability and Solidity for which the tens of systems in production that work on it are indicators. ● Key element in the success of the e-Government model implemented by the Principality of Asturias, which has allowed it to be a point of reference at national level
- 8. Essential Conceptual Points ● Multichannel Access: Gestiones presenciales, interacción a través de web o el uso telefonía móvil. ● Service Continuity: Procedures can be started through any of the supported channels and continued in a different one. ● Accesibility: Anyone should be able to use the system under the same conditions, irrespective of their situation. ● Service simplification and integration: Services that are useful, easy and quick, minimizing the number of iterations needed.. ● Colaboración entre administraciones: Establecer acuerdos de colaboración en de las propias administraciones y entre diferentes organismos. ● Interoperability: Systems must interact among them so that they can allow a full access to the available information.
- 9. Principality of Asturias eEspaña 2007 ICT Accesibility Biko2 report and 2008 Certification (2008) (Fundación from AENOR Excelence Orange) Mode in Usability Asturias is a referent in eAdministration
- 10. openFWPA
- 11. Diversity of tecnologies: problem In 2004, the Principality of Asturias had more than 800 servers, with almost 500 applications developed in more than 20 different development environments.
- 12. J2EE Architecture ● Components can be reused. ● Independence of the underlying architecture. ● Limited Costs. ● Reasonable Learning curve. ● Availability of developer profiles. ● Simplification of management, development and maintenance of the system. ● Support of Free Software.
- 13. Advantages of having a Framework ● Reuse: Same components (menues, authentication, operation) must only be configured, not developed ● Homogeneization: Applications have the same structure and elements. They are developed, maintained and managed the same way. ● Quality: Objective quality criteria based in metrics ● Security: Security integrated in applications ● Standardization: Componentized implementation based in standards.
- 14. Core Development Team ● Team created specifically to develop and give support on openFWPA ● Totally composed by professionals who belong to the Cluster TIC businesses asociation from fhr Principality of Asturias – 73 businesses – 2700 professionals – 300 millions of € ● Helps and gives support to the different development teams
- 15. Project management Government of the Principality of Asturias DirectorateGeneral for Computer Science (coordination and leadership) Businesses (technological support) Core Team (development) Maintenance Team
- 16. New architecture Access Channels Telematic Common Services Modules Integration Bus Management and Processes Corporative Other Administrative Systems Systems Administrations
- 17. Components used in openFWPA ● J2EE – Java Enterprise Edition ● Struts – Web Applications based in the MVC model ● Apache Commons – Reusable Java Components ● Log4j – Run-time configurable log recording system ● Xerces – XML Parser ● JUnit – Library for managing unit tests ● Spring – MVC Framework that allow injection of dependencies ● Maven2 – Tool to manage Java projects ● Ant – Tool to compile and build projects ● Eclipse – Integrated Development Environment (IDE) ● JMeter – Web Applications Benchmarking ● Jasper – Report Generation Engine (PDF)
- 18. Overall vision of the Framework ENTORNO DESAROLLO Filtro standalone SEGURIDAD DOC SOPORTE Filtro Autenticación Estructura del puesto de desarrollo Auth MODULOS OPERACIÓN INTEGRACIÓN IDE T G C C e S X e A l MODULOS INTEGRACIÓN r I M n I Filtro sampleapp M S Herramientas a c E L e S compresión Procedimiento B M despliegue v e B G r O comms. soporte . S e r E e c L blankapp E Manual s o L n o Sitio web S operaciones Diseño informes s s Manual soporte desarrollo Configuración apps Lista Gestión RUN- Pruebas distribución Vista TIME rendimiento configuración FWPA Auditoría sampleapp Negocio Informes Gestión logs Acceso a Pruebas Datos Unitarias Consola Admon. OPEN Struts Log4j Xerces JUnit CVS Ant SRC Métricas uso Apache Spring Eclipse OpenSta Jasper Commons ACEPTA Guía de aceptación Guías de Guía Pruebas Rendimiento CIÓN de aplicaciones Estilo
- 19. Results
- 22. eEspaña 2007 and 2008 reports According to the eEspaña 2007 and eEspaña 2008 reports analyzing 26 services by Fundación Orange, based in the eEurope methodology, Asturias keeps leading the classification, and has experimented in 2008 an increase of 18% in citizen oriented services and 12% in services for businesses Disponibility of services (eEspaña) 26 services 2007 2008 Asturias España Asturias España Disponibility of services targeted at citizens (16 services out of 26) 73,44 54,96 91% 69% Disponibility of services targeted at businesses (10 services out of 26) 82,5 47,76 93% 64%
- 23. Activity of electronic services % Evolución del canal WEB en los últimos 3 años 2007 2008 2009 80,00% % Solicitudes 60,00% 56,20% 40,00% 20,00% 0,00% WEB An increase in the Web channel and decrease in presential can be observed
- 24. Development in ICT Businesses Evolution of employment and business size (measured in millions of euros) of the ICT business sector in Asturias between 2000 and 2006 667,73 702,15 550,24 4900 482,18 488,6 4256 450,08 454,75 4092 3474 3536 3318 3329 2000 2001 2002 2003 2004 2005 2006
- 25. Free Software
- 26. Reasons for releasing it as Free Soft ● Increase the number of businesses that master the technology: reduction of costs and better protection of the investment ● Increase the number of users: expanding this technology to other administrations, businesses, organizations, etc. also favours the reduction of costs and protection of the investment ● Increase the activity in R&D: by sharing with other partners the necessary efforts ● Better position for defining standards applicable to the Public Administration: by sharing the effort needed to push the developed technology and knowledge to the relevant discussion forums
- 27. Released under a dual license LGPL 3.0: GNU Lesses General Public License – Popular. Used by many other projects. – Its legal implications are well and widely known. – Legal text fits well with the legislation of different countries. – Can be combined with privative applications. The license does not affect other components that are not derivatives from the work. – Compatible with the licenses of every of the components on which it depends. – Copyleft: if someone modifies OpenFWPA and distribute their changes, the have to do it under the same license. EUPL 1.1: European Union Public License – Sinergy with different administrations and organizations in the European Union.
- 28. Morfeo Project ● Give to businesses, universities, other administrations, Free Software Community, etc. the opportunity to get involved in the development of openFWPA. ● Alignment with Morfeo Project's goals: – Open Standards – Free Software – Collaboration with other entities
- 29. Steps for releasing the Project Designed as a Product (not as a Project) Based in Free Software / Open Source Components Published as Free Software / Open Source openFWPA Common Modules All Applications
- 30. Next Steps ● Freeing Common Modules and the rest of the system (Authentication, Messaging, etc.) ● Developing an specific training programme to create community: – Current training programmes are focused in online or in-person courses targetted at the Principality of Asturias (administration and local businesses). – Develop self-learning mechanisms for people outside the Principality of Asturias. ● Create a more complete documentation set. ● Internationalize both the code and the documentation.
- 31. openFWPA: Open Framework for the Public Administration, Principality of Asturias (Spain) Miriam Ruiz - Fundación CTIC <miriam.ruiz@fundacionctic.org>