We are avid proponents of Extreme Programming (XP) and are therefore fanatical about unit tests and communication. XP is rapidly becoming the lightweight process of choice, especially for web development. XP and other agile processes emphasize the necessity of writing the unit tests first.
Ward Cunningham himself said to Mr. Tangney “You obviously get it” on the occasion of his signing of the Agile Manifesto. We have close ties to some of the leading XP coaching and training resources. Mr. Tangney is a master of refactoring.
Java is the most popular language for enterprise applications. Our Object Oriented experience stretches back to the mid 80s, to the early days of Smalltalk. (Mr. Tangney contributed to the open source Siren project.)
Working in the Java world, we are familiar with a wide range of Java technologies, including JDBC, JSP, JNDI, JAAS, JMF, Swing, and a many, many more. We use industry standard tools like JUnit, Tomcat, Ant, Hibernate, Eclipse, and a wide variety of others.