Re: Finance IS based on EJB

[Carol McDonald - Sun Developer Relations]

Here is an example of a big finance application build on EJB:

Instinet Adopts Enterprise JavaBeans
  Strategy -- Real-Time Brokerage System
 Will Be Replicated At 50 Customer Sites

http://www.techweb.com/se/directlink.cgi?IWK19990628S0002


>Date: Thu, 12 Aug 1999 00:19:52 -0700
>From: Nicola Vota <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
>Subject: Finance IS based on EJB
>To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
>
>We are an Italian bank with an old Information System no more adapted
>to support our growth.
>
>We are going to review or completely rebuild our IS using a Java
>multi-tier
>architecture and in particular we are very interested in EJB technology;
>
>we have experience on Java,RMI,jsp and multi-tier applications having
>used
>them in some little projects.
>
>We will start on September, so we are going to take a fast decision
>about
>the architecture and the technology; we want to terminate the project
>for the end of 2001.
>
>Our choice on EJB is based on the facilities it gives on managing
>transactionality, security, ecc..
>
>Our doubts on EJB are:
>
>1) Is this technology sufficiently stable to start such a large project
>based on EJB? Do you think that the specifications will change so often?
>
>2) What about views and joins of different Entity EJBs, how can be
>performed efficiently?
>I saw a solution from Oracle Business Components for Java
>(http://technet.oracle.com).
>
>3) Do you know if someone else has made something similar, I mean
>a Finance IS, or however a big IS?
>
>4) Do you know if there are some CASEs to develop with this technology?
>
>5) And Frameworks on EJB for a banking, finance environment?
>
>......
>
>n-th) Sincerely, do you think that we are completely crazy??
>
>Thanks for an answer,
>
>Nicola Vota
>
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