Archetype used in www.meteofrance.com !

Archetype needed a real reference in order to clearly demonstrate its ability to work on huge Web 2.0 applications. Now it’s done!

Météo France, the official French meteorological Agency, uses Archetype on its brand new web site. www.meteofrance.com is one of the most visited French web sites with several millions of clients a day.

Florian, Loïc and I work for a French IT services company: Atos Worldline. The company provides us time to work on our framework as well - it’s good to remind it, thank you Atos Worldline. Actually, our company was chosen to realise this new Météo France web site. I’ve been working myself on this project for months; I proposed our framework for the client development sites, and it all started this way.

The use of the framework is a total success. JavaScript developments are well structured; using the framework was easy for developers, notably for developers new to JavaScript and the frameworks functionalities were indeed appreciated. Web performances are pretty good and compatibility is assured on a large portion of the browser marketplace.

It’s the current Mercurial “tip” version which is used on this project. As this is very stable, we will tag it very soon as of 0.8.0 final !

Hope this is only the first reference using so many Archetype features ;)

Yes, Archetype is ready for a heavy usage on large websites!

Note: The Geoportal API (http://api.ign.fr/geoportail/) and some parts of the Geoportal website itself (http://geoportail.fr), another institutional French web site, receiving several millions hits a day, both use Archetype as their JS loader ;D