Department Omgeving

The department of "Omgeving" (= environment) of the Flemish government is responsible for the realization of a quality living environment and the development of an integrated environmental policy.

Team Phoenix is responsible for the analysis, development and maintenance of several applications within Omgeving, among others analysing requirements, developing new features, fixing bugs in existing applications, testing software, ...

One of these applications is about digital urban planning information. This application makes it possible to consult urban plans, created by the Flemish government or local authorities, in detail. Among other, these plans contain geospatial information about the region. These are plans like "spatial implementation plan", "building code", "regional plan", etc.

Another of these application is about the administrative sanctioning follow-up system. This application supports the administrative sanctioning of environmental crimes and environmental violations. It supports jurists by automating their manual work (like sending mails and sending signed writing).

The applications in Omgeving are Restful APIs, written in Java. Most of these applications use Spring Boot, Hibernate, JPA and JOOQ.

For the asynchronous communication between multiple backend applications, messaging by ActiveMQ is used.

The frontend of these applications are created in JavaScript with Webcomponents, while the data is stored in PostgreSQL databases.

Finally, the applications are deployed on Omgeving its own private cloud.