I can understand why a bank wouldn't want to trust their middle-tier to CF, but that doesn't mean CF is a bad option for their presentation-tier. A correctly put together Java middle-tier can be easily accessible from CF allow for a very robust, yet rapidly deployable application.
-Matt On Thursday, July 31, 2003, at 10:53 AM, Bill Brown wrote: > I'm going to go out on a limb and say that there's no CF-based product > that does online banking. I work at the largest credit union in > Arizona, > specifically on our online banking system, so I've done a lot of > homework on this subject. Prior to moving to ASP, we were a strictly CF > house so I had a big interest in staying in the CF orbit. > > Developing an online banking product is a daunting task because there > are tons of different core processing systems that banks and credit > unions can use and each one has a different request/response method. > What's more, these must generally have outstanding uptime and process > high volumes of transactions. > > The online banking product we use is Corillian's Voyager > (http://www.corillian.com/). It is ASP or ASP.NET for the front end and > a huge apparatus for the back end. Since it uses a COM object to link > the two sides, I suppose that a front end could be written in CF5 that > would probably perform admirably. > > Another one that looks pretty interesting is QBT's MultiPoint. It's a > Java-based middleware server that interacts with the core processor and > exposes methods for a front end of any persuasion to use in generating > transactions. Mind you, it's still a daunting task, but at least you > wouldn't have to worry about the back end as much. > > Bill Brown > http://www.bbrown.info/ > > : -----Original Message----- > : From: Tim Laureska > : Sent: 7/31/03 5:07 AM > : Subject: on-line banking > : > : I have a bank client who now wants to jump into on-line > : banking.... I am looking for any > : suggestions/comments/references .... I know there are many > : canned packages out there, but I'm looking for those that may > : be CF based and proven. > : > : Developing this from scratch could be quite a chore. Feel > : free to contact me off list as well > : > : TIA > : > : Tim Laureska > ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~| Archives: http://www.houseoffusion.com/cf_lists/index.cfm?forumid=4 Subscription: http://www.houseoffusion.com/cf_lists/index.cfm?method=subscribe&forumid=4 FAQ: http://www.thenetprofits.co.uk/coldfusion/faq This list and all House of Fusion resources hosted by CFHosting.com. The place for dependable ColdFusion Hosting. http://www.cfhosting.com Unsubscribe: http://www.houseoffusion.com/cf_lists/unsubscribe.cfm?user=89.70.4
