Whats the FarmLinx Software Suite about?
FarmLinx is a software solution which helps Agri-Consultants to better manage their data-collection and collate the collected information for further analysis. The mobile version, which runs on a PDA (Palm & WinMo), works as data-collection mechanism. The desktop version runs the analysis and data management: Finally, there is a facility to output the farm report as an OpenOffice document. Here’s the workflow: FarmLinx was initially targeted at Agri-Consultants, while these days we are able to provide solutions directly to the farmer for better management of their farms, via http://www.farmlinx.com. Why does the desktop version run on the NetBeans Platform? The version 1 of FarmLinx was developed using plain Swing. As and when we needed to add new features, we ended up with a non-modular monolithic application which was becoming very hard to manage. Hence we set out to build a modular application. The NetBeans Platform provided us with the opportunity to build a modular application fro
