In order to end the 5 year study and have the ISEN diploma, we have to do a 6 month intership. I opt for HP because its a big company (number 1 in software in the world) and it was located at Sophia-Antipolis (close to the golf ^ ^).
This intership took place in the BTO department within a team working in J2EE with the framework JavaServer Faces. I was in charge of a Web2.0 concepts and technologies survey (social networking, AJAX, Rich Internet Application…) and how to use them in a professional product (Dashboard, CMS, Reporting tools…).
So I worked with JSF as backend (Managed beans and basic servlets) and with a lot of Web2 technologies:
- JavaScript with JSF framework such as ajax4jsf, IceFaces
- Adobe Flash with OpenLaszlo (a Adobe Flex concurrent)
- Pure JavaScript frameworks such as Prototype, Script.aculo.us, DOJO …
- Google Web Toolkit (an amazing tool/compiler to produce HTML/JavaScript from Java)
I learnt a lot, technically and also in project management because I worked with a very experienced team, and all of its member helped me every day and was really patient with me. Every week I had to make a presentation about my progress and a demo of my baby, it was really more than a simple working period, I mean, this team teached me a lot technically and more.
