Dealer profiles
The New and Improved Dealer Locator
Background
What is Dealer Locator?
Why Refactor
- Poor Performance
- Business Rules on FE Code
- Hard to debug
- Legacy code and framework
- Unused Code
- Hard to add/improve features
- URL Hell
Searching for a Ford Dealer in Chicago:
http://www.cars.com/dealers/search-results.action?&sc.makes=20015&sc.zipCode=60630&sc.newSearch=true&sc.radius=50&sc.match=ANY&sc.sort=false&sc.sortColumn=DISTANCE&sc.sortDirection=ASC&sc.resultSetStart=0&sc.resultSetSize=50 Dealer Locator - Refactored
- Uses Spring MVC
- Removal of Business rules from FE
- Faster load times
- Easy to add features
- Pretty URLs
Search for Ford dealers in Chicago
http://www.cars.com/dealers/search/ford/60630
Transition
- Struts Action -> Spring MVC Controller
- Struts Interceptors -> Spring Interceptors
- Removal of Struts Taglibs to use standard jstl tags
- Use of Apache Tiles
- AOP to handle Activity Logging
- Using RestTemplate for consuming webservices
Performance
PTG:
Performance
Old VS New
DEMo
Dealer profiles
By Ahmed Bhaila
