Gothaer Insurance is building Nepal, a new Life Insurance sales application. The solution is used mainly by large accounts that have access to Gothaers intranet. The software uses modern technologies like J2EE, XML and WebServices. On the product side it is based on IBM WebSphere, IBM DB2 and MPF/J.

IDG, Gothaer’s IT service provider, evaluated several persistence frameworks and decided to use MPF/J because of its long and successful experience with MicroDoc’s persistence framework suite. MPF/J offers unique features (like built in historization support), a seamless integration into IBM WebSphere application server and is competitively priced. IDG was also pleased by the fast response of the MPF/J product support team and MicroDoc’s flexible reactions to customer feature requests. IDG opted for a MPF/J enterprise-license lately.

Nepal uses an advanced development approach where most parts of the application are generated from an UML model (MDA). The MPF/J mapping process is seamlessly integrated into the Tool-chain via MPF/Js Tool-API.

The application runs on IBM WebSphere application server. It uses several hundred database tables mapped to Entity beans and dependant classes. It serves up to 3500 users via Java/Swing clients, WebServices and HTML interfaces.