Automatic check AE requirements in the JCYL

Starting position and origin of the initiative

To start the initiative, the administration of the Community of Castilla and Lion identified the need of an application, whereby, and independently of any administrative procedure, its citizens to be able to validate your equipment and browser to certify that can operate with electronic administration of the administration of the Community of Castilla and Lion.

Purpose:

• Inform the minimum requirements that requires the client system for the proper functioning of the signature Applet @firma 5.
• Automatically check the team client has these minimum requirements.
  • Supported operating systems
  • Web Browsers
  • Installation and support Java JRE limit versions
  • Installation Plug-In PDF for reading of documents
  • Installation of the software (Applet) from generation of signatures Client.
• Centralize the distribution signature of the Applet @firma 5.
• Check the proper functioning of the generation of software signature in the team destination offering a simulation of signature.
  • Verifies that can perform electronic signatures
  • Verify that the certificate used is in force: Neither Expired, Or Revoked

Objectives:

The objectives of this project are:

• Centralize the distribution of client Software Signature and its updates:
• Facilitate the support and incidences related to the client Software Signature
• Inform the recipients (Citizens) the minimum requirements that requires the client system for the proper functioning of the signature Applet @firma 5
• Provide the user with an option to check if your computer fulfills these minimum requirements.
• Offering the user an option to check if your digital certificate is valid to interact with the E-government platform.

Advantages:

1. Facilitates enormente support and settling incidents.
2. Allows to distribute the software from a single point.
3. Permite localizar las carencias técnicas del Equipo Final y medidas que puede hacer para solucionarlo
4. Allows you to check the Digital Certificate of the citizen.

Main challenges and key aspects for the implementation:

La principal dificultad de Requisitos AE se dio en los orígenes del proyecto, donde surgieron muchas dudas sobre la viabilidad del cliente de firma @firma con navegadores y versiones de JRE. Como respuesta, el proyecto fue altamente influenciado por la calidad del cliente @firma notándose un gran salto de calidad desde la versión 2.x a la actual.
A key aspect in the implementation and development of the initiative was to have a stable platform web development J2EE with different work environments, a solid team development and maintenance and have a real contact with end-users through the Room.